2022- Your Commission At Work

OUR CHARGE

The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission is committed to supporting its growers and increasing sweetpotato consumption through education, promotional activities, research and honorable horticultural practices among its producers. Our membership is made up of over 400 sweetpotato growers along with the packers, processors and business associates that support them. Thanks to the six sweetpotato farmers that chartered the Commission in 1961, we have supported NC sweetpotato growers as North Carolina has remained the No. 1 sweetpotato producing state in the United States since 1971.

To accomplish the objectives of the educational, promotional and research activities administered by the Commission, the General Assembly of North Carolina, in the 1995 session, enacted:

CHAPTER 521 SENATE BILL 649

AN ACT CONCERNING SWEET POTATOES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Sec. 2. Article 50 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

§ 106-564.4. Alternative method for collection of assessments relating to sweet potatoes. (a) In the event the producers of sweet potatoes approve an assessment pursuant to G.S. 106-564, which assessment shall be paid by the producer based on the number of acres produced, the producer shall report the number of acres planted and shall remit the assessment due to the Commissioner of Agriculture. Sweet potato producers shall report acreage planted at a time and place determined by the duly certified agency representing the producers of sweet potatoes.

Sweetpotato is deliberately spelled as two words on these pages to accurately reflect the general statute as ratified.

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