Economic Impact of Forestry and Forest Products in the Rural So
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The importance of this particular industry to rural communities is evident by reviewing a few key statistics. In 1996 for example, the industry employed more than 550,000 directly and hundreds of thousands indirectly. The value of shipments of these products was more than $100 billion. Timber is the highest valued crop in eight southern states and ranks among the top three agriculture crops in all of the 13 Southern states.
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Southern Rural Development Center
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The Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) has served the twenty-nine land-grant institutions of the thirteen Southern states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands since 1974. SRDC is one of four regional rural development centers supporting research and extension efforts to improve the lives of people living in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States.
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