UHERO) report. Sumner La Croix and James Mak noted that local agriculture has been declining for 40 years despite the efforts of the Important Agricultural Lands ( IAL) program, which is tasked with keeping lands in agriculture; and the Agribusiness Development Corporation ( ADC), which employs unused agricultural land to produce diversified agricultural products. “We conclude that ADC’s emphasis on land acquisition has made it a costly, disorganized and ineffective program while the state and counties have failed to fulfill their promises to landowners participating in the IAL program,” said the report. “Neither program is capable of achieving the state’s economic diversification goals.”