Food processing in agro-industries has provided jobs, demonstrating growth of over 25 000 agricultural jobs in this sector for the third quarter of 2011. A further 6 000 agriculture jobs were created in the fourth quarter of 2011. This demonstrates year-on-year growth of 3%. This has brought total employment in the agriculture sector to 630 000. This is definitely a reflection of confidence in our sector, since job growth should be measured within the context of a sector that has been shedding jobs since the 1970s.