Conversion of Prime Agricultural Land to Nonagricultural Uses in One Area of the Sunbelt

A. Frank Ramsey and Floyd L. Corty

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1982, vol. 14, issue 2, 23-29

Abstract: In general, people are aware of the rapid growth of urban areas, the spread of suburban developments, urban sprawl, strip developments, and extensive highway systems, but they are seldom aware of the extent to which prime agricultural land has been, and is being, diverted to these and other nonagricultural uses.

Date: 1982
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