Income and employment generation in the food and fiber system

Gerald Schluter (), Chinkook Lee and William Edmondson
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Chinkook Lee: Agricultural Economists in the Agriculture and Rural Economics Division, ERS, US Department of Agriculture, Postal: Agricultural Economists in the Agriculture and Rural Economics Division, ERS, US Department of Agriculture

Agribusiness, 1986, vol. 2, issue 2, 143-158

Abstract: In the spirit of the classic Davis-Goldberg study of agribusiness, a procedure is presented for estimating and estimates of employment and income originating in the US Food and Fiber System. The Food and Fiber System is on net a nearly wholly domestic based subsystem of the economy accounting for employment for 18.5% of the civilian workforce and a source for 18% of total gross national product.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1002/1520-6297(198622)2:2<143::AID-AGR2720020202>3.0.CO;2-H

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