Rhode Island State Resources
- Cooperative Rhode Island Research, Education & Extension Service Partners
- Rhode Island Department of Agriculture
- Rhode Island Fact Sheet, Economic Research Service, USDA. This specific fact sheet includes current data on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial characteristics, top ag commodities, top export commodities, and top counties in ag sales.
- Rhode Island Farmers Markets
- Rhode Island Marketing Profile
- Rhode Island USDA Rural Development
- More Links
- Federal Regulations, New England Extension, Food Safety Consortium
- Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship
- Rhode Island Rural Development Council (RIRDC)
- Rhode Island Small Business Development Center (RISBDC)
- State of Rhode Island - Business
- The Small Business Resource is designed to help business owners and entrepreneurs solve problems and locate key public and private organizations and individuals. These are business decision makers - businessmen and women looking to expand their operations, relocate companies, and plan a business start-up.
Individual contacts in Rhode Island for specific value-added agriculture information:
| Kenneth Ayars, Chief Division of Agriculture Department of Environmental Management 235 Promenade Street, Room 370 Providence, RI 02908 Phone: (401) 222-2781, ext. 4500 Fax: (401) 222-6047 E-mail: ken.ayars@dem.ri.gov | Richard Burke Program Support/Rural Development Coordinator USDA Rural Development in Southern New England 415 West St., Ste. 2 Amherst, MA 01002-2999 Phone: (413) 253-4319 Fax: (413) 253-4347 E-mail: dick.burke@ma.usda.gov Web site: www.rurdev.usda.gov/ma/SO.htm |
