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Save farmland
“IT IS OF ABSOLUTE critical concern that thoughtless conversions of good agricultural land to other uses stop immediately if we are to have enough food and fiber for future generations.”
S. Nfason Carbaugh, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Commerce, made this assertion at a recent seminar on land use plans and policies, and his wise words should be heeded from one end of the land to the other.
It’s all so obvious that it should hardly have to be stated, but anyone who has watched the relentless conversion of rich farmlands into housing tracts in Northern Virginia can appreciate the urgency of Mr. Carbaugh’s remarks. Quite simply, he points out that the American people can no longer take for granted abundant supplies of food at low prices, and he urged planners to consider the protection of existing agricultural land and to mark out for development only that land which is unsuitable for agricultural production.
“A land use plan must be created to assure adequate production of food needs and a certain minimum acerage of the lands which are today considered agricultural must be reserved exclusively for agricultural production purposes in the future,” Mr.Xarbaugh said.
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