Agricultural development in Alaska

Bibliographic Data

ID9226128
AuthorsCarol E Lewis (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Roger W Pearson, Roger Pearson (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Wayne C Thomas (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Year1987
Volume23
Issue147
Pages673-682
Publication date1987-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolar Record (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0032247400008378
OpenAlexW2098043342
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Development during approximately 200 years of agricultural activity in Alaska has been varied and generally inadequate. Four stages are here identified. During the period from Russian and early American colonization to the late 1880s production was largely for personal consumption. From 1898 to World War II federal intervention stimulated local commercial agriculture, and from the late 1940s to the late 1960s commercial production expanded. Since then a state- supported strategy to develop an export-based agriculture has been tried, but implementation has not been completed. Alaska remains a frontier which has yet to find a workable manner in which to implement a strategy for its agriculture

Agricultural economics · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Archaeology · Business · Colonization · Economics · Environmental protection · Frontier · Geography · Intervention (counseling) · Period (music) · Political science · State (computer science) · World War II · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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