MPR features local Latino 'agripreneurial' operation
Submitted by David Gonnerman on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 3:41pm
A recent story by Minnesota Public Radio's Elizabeth Baier looks at the 'agripreneurial' activity happening on a patch of farmland near Northfield where Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, director of the Rural Enterprise Center, has helped immigrant farmers start their own operations.
"The way he sees it, if hundreds of thousands of Latinos already work in the nation's food and agricultural sectors, many of them could also branch out and be their own bosses," reports Baier.
"Rather than letting someone in a factory define what you're worth, why don't we try to create a path so you can decide what you're worth?" Haslett-Marroquin asks.
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