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Value-Added Activities as a Rural Development Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

David S. Kraybill  and
Thomas G. Johnson
David S. Kraybill
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Georgia, Athens
Thomas G. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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Reverse cannot befall that fine Prosperity,

Whose sources are interior.

Emily Dickinson

At least 22 states have established agricultural value-added programs to provide new employment opportunities in rural areas and to create additional demand for agricultural products (Greene, p. 15). These value-added programs are a subset of a broader range of state-sponsored economic development programs that attempt to alter the rate of regional economic growth by identifying and assisting local entrepreneurs, by establishing institutions for the commercialization of new technologies, and by creating non-traditional sources of business finance.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 1989 , pp. 27 - 36
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1989

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