The importance of agriculture

• In the last Stats Canada census, 38,000 Quebecers were identified as farmers. Almost 13,000 of those were dairy farmers.

* Counting employees at processing plants and

• Counting employees at processing plants and

grocery stores, the agriculture sector employs close to 217,000 Quebecers, seven percent of the workforce.

• Agriculture is an $11 billion business, representing 16 percent of the value of manufacturing shipments in the province.

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