As of 2005, 1816 people worked in agriculture, including 816 full-time farmers.
In 1911, however, he decided to move to Temple and become a full-time farmer.
Can the Minister explain why 10,000 full-time farmers left the land last year?
The time factor was a problem both to full-time and part-time farmers but for entirely different reasons.
Here he received some private tuition, before - still at a young age - becoming a full-time and successful farmer.
The village still has 5 full-time farmers, and also 15 more who farm as a secondary source of income.
THE number of full-time farmers in the country has been falling since the 1930's, to less than one million.
Five full-time farmers lived in the municipality at this time.
Just 300,000 full-time farmers account for 80 percent of production.
Though he's 74, in the process of handing down the farm, he works full-time farmers' hours.