NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1341

HOUSE BILL 446

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR A SWEET POTATO FACILITY AT THE HORTICULTURAL CROPS RESEARCH STATION AT CLINTON.

Whereas, North Carolina is the number one sweet potato producer in the nation; and

Whereas, the sweet potato crop is increasingly important to North Carolina and research into improving this crop is becoming more and more essential; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars ($38,000) for fiscal year 1982-83 to build a facility at the Horticultural Crops Research Station at Clinton to conduct research on mechanization of the various stages of sweet potato processing.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.