Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Florida Agricultural Market Research Center (FAMRC)
Led by Zhifeng Gao · Food and Resource Economics
What we study
The center studies consumer demand for food quality and new market opportunities, and whether farmers will adopt new technologies. Projects link economics with crop science, such as organic strawberries and grafted vegetables.
What working here is like
- Surveys & interviews
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
Current projects
Small and medium farm market opportunities
Finding new markets to improve farm profit and environmental stewardship.
Organic high tunnel vegetables
Economic viability and adoption in the Southeast (co-PI).
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Sustainable organic strawberry systems
Consumer preferences for cultivars and production costs (co-PI).
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
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