CHARLESTON — The demand is there.
West Virginia consumers spend about $7 billion annually on food products, according to figures from the West Virginia Department of Agriculture.
But West Virginia farmers and growers are providing less than $1 billion of that to their own neighbors, a statistic often noted by Walt Helmick, state agriculture commissioner.
Supplying more of that demand in-state is an opportunity for economic growth that the Mountain State cannot afford to miss out on, he says.
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