Subsequently, incomes from rural non-farm jobs and remittances from migrants have become important. Not only has poverty fallen, but the reductions have been similar across the provinces. The figure below shows how, from the late 1980s onwards, land and labour have started to leave farming, while productivity growth of these two factors has accelerated. Thailand’s agriculture: Transition and sustained growth (cont.) Agricultural land and economically active population in agriculture, left scale, value of production per hectare and per worker, right scale.