Kentucky has deep roots in agriculture but growing economic pressures and the 1980s farm crisis led to the quiet disappearance in the number of family-run farms. The roughly 20-percent decline in the number of Kentucky farms between 1995 and 2015 further compounded the economic disparity in both rural and urban areas. Fanners looking to reinvent the state's agricultural landscape led to the emergence of nine aquaponic businesses over the past seven years.
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