AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative to grow the state's agbioscience economy, released new research that found Indiana's agbioscience sector directly contributes more than $58 billion to Indiana's economy – an increase of more than $6 billion since 2018.
Conducted by TEConomy Partners, the study entitled "Innovative Agbioscience in Indiana: 2021 Economic Impacts Revisited," identified that the growth across Indiana's agbioscience economy since 2018 marked the fastest-growing time for the industry since measurements to quantify it began in 2012.
"The agbioscience economy is the only economy in the world that touches every person on the planet given it centers on food," said Mitch Frazier, president and CEO of AgriNovus Indiana. "The growth this research identifies represents the tremendous gains Indiana's agbioscience innovators are advancing to meet global demand across food, animal health, plant science and agtech."
According to the study, Indiana's agbioscience economy posted growth during the period from 2018 to 2021, including:
Value-added food and nutrition increased 2% during the period and remains the largest component of the state's agbioscience economy with $29.9 billion in output.
Animal health and nutrition increased 27.3% to $5.5 billion, making it the fastest-growing innovation-based platform of Indiana's agbioscience economy over the last decade.
Agricultural equipment, technologies and systems increased 16.8% to $2.2 billion, maintaining upward momentum as the second-fastest growing platform since 2012.
Plant science and crop protection increased 7.2% to $3.3 billion and posted positive growth for the first time since 2012.
"From a global pandemic to broken supply chains to rising inflation, Indiana's agbioscience sector has faced many headwinds since economic progress was last measured," said Deborah Cummings, principal and managing director for TEConomy Partners, LLC. "This update identifies sound growth across the four innovation-based platforms as well as production agriculture and should come as encouraging news as the sector continues on its upward growth trajectory."
Source: nationalhogfarmer.com
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