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Value-Added Agricultural Enterprises in Rural Development Strategies (Paperback)
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U.S. Agriculture is also changing rapidly from a sector
characterised by production of undifferentiated bulk commodities
sold in spot markets to one of specialised markets driven by new
end-user demands. As production shifts away from commodity
agriculture to product agriculture, vertically integrated
agribusiness firms are increasingly organising production into
agro-food value chains to synchronise all stages of production from
seed to supermarket. Value-added production is a central element of
agro-food value chain, and control over specific "identity
preserved"(IP) trait is basic to the development of product
agriculture. Many farmers and ranchers are beginning to consider
how they might reorganise their operation to better anticipate
these changes and to participate in them, for example, by forming
"new generation" value-added co-operatives, and engaging in
increased contract production as sources of new markets, lowered
risks, and higher farm and ranch incomes. Emerging opportunities
for biomass-based fuels and materials processing facilities, new
food processing plants, and alternative farming system (e.g.,
organic) could create important new markets for producers.
Smaller-scale producers find new opportunities in regionally
branded products, farmers markets, new speciality crops, ethic
markets, or in establishing direct marketing links between farms an
regional groceries. This new book examines the status of this
important development.
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