“Agriculture is not a labor-intensive industry”
As a guy who owns a farm, works with farmers, talks with farmers every day, and works for a company that makes equipment for farmers to use in daily production, I have one thing to say:
This guy has uttered the most inaccurate-and-down-right-stupid statement in the history of journalism. It is so stupid it entirely discredits any other word in the article by tainting it with stupidity.
I assume by labor intensive the author means that it doesn’t require a large volume of hired labor. Farmers themselves work incredibly hard. We live in a rural area, each family farm seems to have one or two hired men. The owner labors intensely.
Contrast that to other industries, like hospitality, where high levels of hired labor are required. It’s not physically more laborious, just requires more people to do it. It’s “labor intensive “.