By Sarah Correll
$37.9
billion. That’s a lot of money. According to a report of Indiana University’s
Kelley School of Business, that’s how much Indiana’s agriculture industry
contributed to the economy in 2011. This report studied the importance of
agriculture in Indiana, and it includes some impressive numbers.
About
83% of Indiana’s land is farmed or forested. That’s 19.4 million acres of
Indiana land producing food and forestry products for use, trade, and export.
Agriculture
employs over 190,000 Hoosiers. These are jobs from our communities, for our
communities.
And
most of this comes from family farms. What an amazing industry!
Read
the Indiana Business Research Center’s full report, “Agriculture’s Bounty: The
Economic Contribution of Agriculture,” here.
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