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Extension
Focus Areas
- Agribusiness
Management
- Agricultural
Finance
- Commodity
Marketing
- Consumer
Economics
- Economics
of Agricultural Production
- International
Trade
- Law and
Policy
- Leadership
Development and Environmental Conflict Resolution
- Natural
Resource Economics
- Waste
Management
ARE Extension
strives to improve the quality and availability of extension educational
programs by:
- maintaining
a strong field-oriented educational program by state specialists,
- providing
in-service training for area and county agricultural, family and
consumer science,4-H and other agents with responsibilities for
a variety of subject areas including
- water
quality and the environment
- public
issues education and public choice
- farm
management
- marketing
- economic
development
- and
consumer economics
- increasing
the distribution of written materials.
Demand for
ARE Extension programs increases. This increase is due, in part,
to a growing need to understand the international economic environment
in which farmers and consumers operate, the need to become more
environmentally safe while maintaining profitability and becoming
more competitive, and a recognition of the need to become better
decision makers.
The
ARE Extension program is part of the North
Carolina Cooperative Extension Service (NCCES), an educational
organization which has provided research-based information for almost
80 years in N.C. It is part of a nationwide extension system that
is based on a series of partnerships including the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, state and county governments, land-grant
universities, non profit organizations, and thousands of volunteers
and lay advisors. In recent years, extension has moved in new directions,
including not only its historical base of farms and farm families,
but extending its customer base to many who do not live on farms
or have farm backgrounds.
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