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Title: Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for East Arkansa Planning and Development District

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: The technological advances in agricultural production in the last half of the twentieth century and the decline in manufacturing due to globalization have contributed to many of the needs found in East Arkansas today. In many ways, the region exemplifies a people and an economy in a constant state of change due to its efforts to transition to the 21st century. Influences external to the region along with the emergence of non-agricultural sectors of employment at the local level continue to force change in East Arkansas even as those sectors grapple with workforce issues and competition at the national and global levels. The acceptance and maturation of this dynamic has been neither painless nor ubiquitous.The region, with a land area of some 8,000 square miles, is not blessed with a wide variety of natural resources. At one time, it could be argued that the only two resources worth mentioning were the soils and the water. Today, however, the agricultural water supply in much of the region is in crisis due to depletion of the aquifers. That being said, the soils in most of the region are among the most productive in the world, providing a basis for large scale agricultural production that can rarely be matched. Agricultural production has long been the mainstay of the economy and continues to influence the regions culture, economy, and public policy...

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Authors: East Arkansas Planning, Development District

Publisher: East Kansas Planning & Development District

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare

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