Agribusiness boosted job creation in Mato Grosso do Sul in January. According to data from the Employees and Unemployed Persons (Caged), 798 new jobs, almost three times higher than in the same period in 2017.
The highlight for the state’s economy was the agricultural sector more precisely in the cultivation of sugarcane with 272 jobs and the soybean with 257 new jobs.
According to the economist’s analysis, Federation of State Agriculture and Livestock (Famasul), Luiz Gama, the numbers are linked to the harvest season of the oilseed and to the potential of the sugarcane industry. “Soybeans today are the flagship in gross generation of production value and we are in full harvest, so it is a more labor intensive period.”
With regard to the profile of hirings, it is possible to observe that the majority of the new employees in the south-mato-grossense agriculture has of 18 The 24 years occupying 36.7% of vacancies. With a little less, the age range of 30 The 39 years, with 29.4% stations.