Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States

Rigoberto Lopez, Nataliya Plesha () and Benjamin Campbell
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Nataliya Plesha: University of Connecticut

No 34, Outreach Reports from University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Charles J. Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy

Abstract: The northeastern region of the United States comprises 5 percent of the United States land mass but houses 20 percent of the population. Even within this relatively small, densely population area, agriculture, forestry and fisheries are important economic components at the household, state and regional levels. At the request of Farm Credit East, we conducted a study to document and ascertain the significance in the economies of eight northeastern states of the agriculture sector, defined broadly as including four Fs: farming, food, forestry and fisheries. As measured in the eight states under study using data from 2012, agriculture contributed $99.4 billion to regional total sales or $2,312 per resident and generated 474,482 jobs.

Keywords: farming; economic impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2015-03
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Working Paper: Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States (2015)
Working Paper: Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States (2015)
Working Paper: Economic Impacts of Agriculture in Eight Northeastern States (2014)
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