C 2.2. What is the share of the sugar-cane agribusiness in the overall employment?
The Brazilian agribusiness, taken as a whole, accounts for 20.6 percent of the countrys Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 14 percent of all jobs. The sugar-cane industry employs 6 percent of all Brazilian workers in the agribusiness as accounts for 35 percent of So Paulo states GDP and rural jobs. Brazils sugar-cane growing business is responsible for around one million direct jobs (765,000 direct, formal jobs, RAIS 2002); around 520,000 people were employed in sugar-cane growing alone in 2002 (PNAD, 2003). In the State of So Paulo, there are around 400,000 direct jobs in the sugar-cane industry, and 95 percent of those workers are formally employed, thus having all rights set forth in the labor legislation, and represent 40 percent of the states rural jobs. The absolute number of jobs in the industry decreased during the 1990s (increased mechanical harvesting and improved management), and then rose again as a result of the industrys expansion in the last few years. The seasonality rate
