33% Of workers in the agro-industrial sector are women

While the crisis has hit all business sectors, the agricultural has been less affected than others, as it depends on essential goods such as food. However, while the last two years crisis has affected with less force in this sector than others, agriculture is now more industrialized before, what makes that more productions are consistent with the demand. Thus explained it, Matías Sánchez, responsible for the Unique Agribusiness Division. Since the Division specialized in agro-industry of the company Unique of temporary work is studied for years, how has evolved the agro-industrial sector, in terms of recruitment, professional profiles and demands. According to the company, this is a sector which is dominated by the male gender, and is that recruitment Unique made last year in this field, 67 per cent were men and 33 per cent women. Since the beginning of the year this trend continues, with slight variations, that until August of this year recruitment that had been made in this area accounted for 64 per cent of the cases male and 36% for women.

Depending on the educational level, the greater part of procurement carried out by Unique (65%) were made to people who had not completed their studies, compared to 8 per cent of those who had been a BUP or similar and 2 per cent of those who had completed some degree of training. 14% Had the school certificate. The most demanded professional profiles, within this area, are the agricultural pawn (23%), pawn collector (15%) and youth (10%), followed by others as auxiliaries, manipulators, machine operators, gatherers, pawns of packaging, etc. As to the degree of seasonality of labour supply, are provinces such as Lleida, which requires large staff in the summer for the collection of fruit (PEAR, Apple, etc), seed or Valencia and Castellón, whose campaign of citrus fruit is mainly since the end of September to may.