{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-38-201","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 25-38-201","heading":"Legislative findings","body":"The General Assembly finds that:\n\n(1) Agriculture accounts for thirteen billion dollars ($13,000,000,000) or one-fifth (1/5) of the gross state product of Arkansas;\n\n(2) Two hundred ninety-one thousand (291,000) Arkansas jobs directly involve or operate in support of agriculture;\n\n(3) Agriculture and agriculture-related jobs account for twenty-three percent (23%) of all employment in Arkansas;\n\n(4) Responsibility for supporting agriculture in Arkansas is spread across six (6) state agencies;\n\n(5) Marketing of the agricultural products of Arkansas is made extremely difficult by the diffusion of responsibility across six (6) state agencies; and\n\n(6) Marketing of the agricultural products of Arkansas would be vastly improved if a central office were devoted to creating, publicizing, and sustaining an information network for Arkansas farmers and ranchers.","path":["AR Code","Title 25","Chapter 38","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"7e0699aaf171bdd049adff68a399662bfeaea170c66897a0f7238f762a0a35ae","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-37-102","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-25-38-202"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}