although personal income derived from basic agriculture was only 13.5% of the 

 State's total personal income. The findings of Loehman and Hsiao on Florida's 

 agricultural sectors' impact on the economy are reported in Table 16. In all 

 sectors the writers believe that the impact of agriculture on other sectors is 

 much greater in Southwest Florida than in other areas of the State. This is 

 because the region is a major producer of many of the State's farm products 

 and also because of its well developed and sophisticated industrial and com- 

 mercial base. 



Table 16. The contributions of agriculture to the Florida economy in 1970 and 

 (in parentheses) percentage contribution to the State total (Loehman and Hsiao 

 1979). 



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