Value-Added Agricultural Enterprises and Local Economic Performance

Anil Rupasingha ()

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2009, vol. 31, issue 3, pages 511-534

Abstract: Proponents of value-added agricultural enterprises (VAAE) argue for favorable government policies and funds to promote these industries as a local development strategy. Though regularly advocated at all levels of government, the beliefs regarding the benefits of VAAE to local economies merit empirical investigation. A county-level analysis of the contiguous U.S. states for a ten-year time period was used to evaluate the contribution of selected VAAE to county economic well-being. The two-stage least squares regression coupled with spatial econometric methods suggests that the support for these selected VAAE as a tool of local economic well-being, measured using income and employment growth and change in poverty rates, is not well founded. Copyright 2009 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Date: 2009

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