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Small Food Businesses Get Help

NC Agriculture Department,

The state Agriculture Department is hosting its first Food Business Conference today in Alamance County. 

Leoneda Inge:  The Food Business conference is targeting small business owners who are trying to get to the next level. Annette Dunlap is a food business specialist with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture.  She says there are a growing number of entrepreneurs who already have salad dressings, meats and vegetables on store shelves, they just need help building their brand and expanding internationally. Ag leaders say food businesses play a major part in the department’s 70-billion dollar contribution to the state’s economy.  There’s clearly a lot of interest in this, because the conference is already full.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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