The decline in the Dutch livestock population could cost 33.000 people who work in agriculture and agribusiness their jobs. This concerns many employees in sparsely populated regions with little prospect of another job, has analyzed CNV† The union suggests that employees could be retrained to become nature and landscape managers, among other things.
In the analysis, the trade union did not include farmers who had to stop because of the consequences of the government's nitrogen policy. "In the discussion about livestock reduction, it is often about the farmers. But not about the employees in that sector. While a smaller livestock is a huge blow for them. At least 30.000 employees can be affected if the livestock shrinks," says Piet Fortuin, CNV President, in a statement. The union still speaks of a conservative estimate.
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Of the jobs that are lost, about a third are in agriculture, such as animal husbandry. Two thirds work in agribusiness, such as agricultural services (contracting), distribution, slaughterhouses and the animal feed industry. The CNV advocates a transition fund to prevent high unemployment in the agricultural sector.
"This concerns many people who work in sparsely populated regions where there is little prospect of new work. A move to the Randstad is drastic and, moreover, often unaffordable. If the government wants to reduce the livestock, it must therefore come up with a transition fund at the same time." Fortune said.
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From this transition fund, employees who lose their job in the agricultural sector can be retrained for other work. CNV sees many opportunities for this in the healthcare and transport sector. This is also work that is available all over the Netherlands. It is also exciting that CNV sees a future for these employees in nature and landscape management.
This area is basically the reason that agricultural companies have to stop. 'An example is the provision of services for nature and landscape management and water storage/purification. Opportunities for this are mainly located in the vicinity of nature reserves, peat meadow areas and the river area', CNV motivates the career opportunities.
A third option is positions in social enterprises. According to CNV, these are multifunctional companies that produce other social values and services in addition to food. Examples of this are care, recreation or education or organizing new connections between food production and consumers/citizens.
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I think it's always the case, if you don't want something that's good, and throw it away that you also lose what you do want, don't destructively kill an industry just because you hate that way of life, has happened many times in the past, but never turned out well
Kjol, from your reaction you can conclude that you have spent too long in too high a concentration of ammonia.
It's even simpler than you can imagine, ie if the population were to shrink, consumption would fall and the most favorable effect could be that 30000 migrant workers could return to their home countries.
But you didn't see the latter either, when the shoe industry, the shipbuilding, aircraft and mining industries left the Netherlands.
Livestock shrinkage won't even cause a ripple in GDP
