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Pennsylvania Safeguards Additional Farmland For Future Agriculture Production
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Jun 18, 2009 Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said prime farmland in 19 counties will continue to be viable for agriculture production thanks to action by the Agricultural Preservation Board to protect an additional 4,225 acres on 47 farms. In its 21-year history, Pennsylvania's nationally recognized farmland preservation program has safeguarded 418,880 acres on 3,828 farms from development. "Pennsylvania is the national leader in farmland preservation, allowing agriculture to continue as the state's leading economic enterprise," said Wolff. "Each year, the agriculture industry contributes $5.8 billion to Pennsylvania's economy and employs one in seven citizens. Every measure must be taken to ensure our number one industry remains viable for the future, and that includes protecting prime farmland for future production needs." The latest preserved farms are in Adams, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Columbia, Crawford, Lancaster, Lehigh, Mercer, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton, Perry, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Union, Washington, Westmoreland and York counties. The state's farmland preservation program works through the Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program, which was developed in 1988 to help slow the loss of prime farmland to non-agricultural uses. The program enables state, county and local governments to purchase conservation easements, also called development rights, from owners of quality farmland. Since the program's inception, state, county and local governments have invested more than $1 billion to preserve farms. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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