Farm-City Week highlights the relationship between the state’s farmers and their partners in urban areas who prepare, transport, market and retail the food and fiber farmers grow for the American consumer.

Kiwanis International began Farm-City Week in 1966 to increase the understanding of the partnership between urban and rural residents. Farm days at schools, farm tours, banquets and mayoral proclamations are just a few of the activities that will be held in communities across Georgia to mark this annual event.

According to the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development (CAED), food and fiber production and related businesses represent the largest or second largest segment of all goods and services produced in two-thirds of Georgia’s counties.

Farm-City Week will be observed November 14-20.  The Chattooga County Farm Bureau will be hosting a breakfast on Wednesday, November 17th for Chattooga County agricultural producers.  The event is free, from 7 AM until 9 AM and will be held at the Chattooga County Ag Center on Middle School Drive in Summerville.