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the agricultural economy to Georgia. In 2020, food and fiber production and related industries represented $69.4 billion in output to Georgia’s $1.1 trillion economy and more than 352,430 jobs in the economy. Ag Snapshots 2022 A brief focus on Georgia’s agricultural industry Author: Sharon P. Kane, Senior Public Service Associate, Economist
- Early History
- “King Cotton”
- Farm Population
WhenGeneral James E. Oglethorpeled the first settlement of English colonists at Savannahin 1733, one of their goals was to find crops that could be profitably grown and exported to England. Oglethorpe sought the advice and counsel of Tomochichi, leader of the Yamacraw people, who were skilled in hunting, fishing, and cultivating maize (corn), beans...
Cotton and tobacco became the major crops in Georgia after American independence because the loss of British markets and subsidies undercut other lucrative crops like indigo. Initially, cotton was limited to Georgia’s sea islands, but the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 near Savannah revolutionized the cotton industry. Short-stap...
Georgia remained an agrarian state until after World War II (1941-45). The rural population did not decrease much between 1920, when there were 2.1 million rural people and 310,000 farms, and 1960, when there were still 1.98 million rural residents. Over time, though, the proportion of the population living in rural areas decreased from about 85 pe...
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The 2023 Ag Snapshots report on Georgia’s agricultural economy is based on the 2021 Georgia Farm Gate Value Report, an annual, county-level economic valuation for all food and fiber production in the state. Together these commodities directly represent a value of nearly $14.7 billion to the Georgia economy. Beyond their farm gate values ...
2023 STATE AGRICULTURE OVERVIEW. Georgia † Survey Data from Quick Stats as of: May/08/2024. Farms Operations ...
