Florida Agriculture Department Issues Statement at Rural Economic Development Summit
December 13, 2017
December 13, 2017
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Dec. 13 -- The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issued the following remarks by Commissioner Adam H. Putnam at a Rural Economic Development Summit in St. Augustine:
"The goal of rural economic development is not to turn our rural communities into urban communities. The goal of rural economic development is to embrace the things that make our communities strong and create new opportunities that are vertically integrated in the strengt . . .
"The goal of rural economic development is not to turn our rural communities into urban communities. The goal of rural economic development is to embrace the things that make our communities strong and create new opportunities that are vertically integrated in the strengt . . .