The General Assembly finds that:
(1) Agriculture accounts for thirteen billion dollars ($13,000,000,000) or one-fifth (1/5) of the gross state product of Arkansas;
(2) Two hundred ninety-one thousand (291,000) Arkansas jobs directly involve or operate in support of agriculture;
(3) Agriculture and agriculture-related jobs account for twenty-three percent (23%) of all employment in Arkansas;
(4) Responsibility for supporting agriculture in Arkansas is spread across six (6) state agencies;
(5) Marketing of the agricultural products of Arkansas is made extremely difficult by the diffusion of responsibility across six (6) state agencies; and
(6) Marketing of the agricultural products of Arkansas would be vastly improved if a central office were devoted to creating, publicizing, and sustaining an information network for Arkansas farmers and ranchers.
Section: 25-38-202 25-38-203 25-38-204 25-38-206 25-38-207 25-38-208 25-38-210 NextLast modified: November 15, 2016