Investor Presentaiton
A Diversified and Resource-based Economy
Agriculture
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Alberta has one of the world's most productive agricultural economies,
with a total farm area of 50.3 million acres or 20.3 million hectares.
In 2016, farm cash receipts for Alberta totaled $13.5 billion, representing
22 per cent of Canada's primary agricultural production. The province
posted the highest cattle receipts as well as the second highest total crop
receipts in the country.
Alberta has an expanding value-added agricultural products sector. In
2016, sales of Alberta's processed food and beverage industry were $14.6
billion making it Alberta's top manufacturing industry on a revenue basis.
Meat product manufacturing accounts for just over one-half of the
sector's sales.
The addition of 2,350-square-metres of business incubation and
development space makes Alberta's Food Processing Development
Centre and Agrivalue Processing Business Incubator the largest of its
kind in the world.
Alberta
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