VALUE-ADDED RESEARCH INVESTMENTS: BOON OR BOONDOGGLE?

Gary W. Williams

No 270472, 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Adding value to agricultural products is often seen as a means to dispose of raw commodity surpluses and to add jobs, boost incomes, and otherwise promote rural economic development. A major component of this development strategy has been federal and state investments in research intended to boost the production, marketing, and distribution of valueadded agricultural products. This symposium explored the economic rationale and implications of such research investments.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59
Date: 1989-07-30
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/270472/files/aaea-1989-009.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/270472/files/a ... 9.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaea89:270472

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270472

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().