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Article: Madison County development shrinks farmland
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 18, 2002
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CopyrightCopyright Mississippi Business Journal Mar 18, 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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CANTON - The landscape of Madison County is changing - rapidly. Along Interstate 55 just south of Canton to the city limits, bulldozers and work crews are working around the clock on the $930-million Nissan North America assembly plant that will produce 250,000 vehicles annually and employ up to 4,000 workers. And that's not counting Nissan's suppliers, which are expected to employ thousands more. Seemingly overnight, the county is being transformed into a manufacturing and industrial center.
However, progress has its price. There is one important sector of the county's economy that is not getting direct benefit from the automaker's arrival - the county's farming community.
"There's no ...