Citrus culture is one of the major job-generating cultures in the country. According to data from the Caged (General Cadaster of Employed and Unemployed) compiled by the Brazilian Association of Citrus Exporters (CitrusBR), the sector generated a total of 38,327 new jobs in 2020. The number is even more representative when we recognize that orange holds an important share in the total number, 6.33% of the 605 thousand new jobs generated by Agriculture in Brazil last year. Of the 333.5 thousand jobs created by São Paulo state agriculture, orange production accounted for 10.23%. “The harvest of citriculture is extremely manpower demanding”, says the executive director of CitrusBR, Ibiapaba Netto. The orange harvest takes place over a relatively long period of time, about eight or nine months, and may even reach 10 months sometimes. Harvesting operation is done manually, which means that over 96 billion oranges were harvested by human hands in that period of time.
Source: Universo Agro / DATAGRO
*Translated by Ia Niani