Georgia County Government - October 2008 - (Page 14) Regional Focus: South Georgia Agricultural Heartland Welcomes Economic Diversity The agricultural heartland found in Tift, Turner, Cook and Echols counties blends the ‘old’ with the ‘new’ by welcoming economic diversity and bio-fuel and agricultural research facilities to a region that still underpins Georgia’s billion-plus ‘farm gate’ economy. By Deborah Dewberry, Editor certainly one of the busiest in the nation, serve, for all those passing through, as the virtual “gateway” to the Sunshine State. From the vantage point of the busy highway, it Second only to the peanut is Georgia’s bountiful harvest of pecans, also shipped worldwide. Image courtesy of the Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) Picture Georgia photo archive. W elcome to South Georgia. The counties here, occupying the region north of the Florida state line, remain some of the state’s most undeveloped, yet most-traveled through as several million automobiles head southbound for vacations yearly via Interstate 75. The verdant rural fields f lanking this interstate, may not look like much is going on in this most rural of Georgia’s regions, but there is much more to South Georgia than meets the eye. Here, one finds the beating heart of the state’s critically important agribusiness economy. 14 GEORGIA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
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