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Delegate Kent Roberson seeks to expand urban agriculture property‑tax credit to include value‑added products, beekeeping and composting
Summary
Delegate Kent Roberson told the committee HB 907 would broaden eligibility for county discretionary urban‑farm property‑tax credits so more small and beginning urban farms can qualify; farmers, nonprofit groups and the Maryland Department of Agriculture supported the change.
Delegate Kent Roberson presented House Bill 907 on Feb. 18 to expand the statutory language that allows counties to offer an urban agricultural property‑tax credit. He told the Ways and Means Committee the change clarifies and broadens eligible uses to include production of value‑added agricultural products, beekeeping, raising livestock, composting, and pollinator habitat creation and maintenance.
Nut graf: Supporters, including small and beginning urban farmers, county agricultural development representatives and the Maryland Department of Agriculture, said the current…
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