# Agriculture (GAG)

## Title 2. Department of Agriculture

### Subtitle 22. State Specialist for Value-Added Agriculture

#### Section 2-2201

In this subtitle, "value-added agriculture":

(1) Means the alteration or enhancement of a raw agricultural product, including livestock, or an agricultural service in a way that increases the product or service's worth to a consumer and brings more revenue to a farmer, producer, or processor; and

(2) Includes all enterprises, including those providing equine activities, in which an agricultural business or the agricultural business's products or services are altered, marketed, produced, or processed in a way that adds income to a farmer, producer, or processor.

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Md. Code Ann., Agric. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)