The purpose of the North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund is to support the farming, forestry, and horticulture communities within the agriculture industry by:

• Supporting the purchase of agricultural conservation easements (on farm, forest, and horticulture lands), including transaction costs.
• Funding Public and private enterprise programs that will promote profitable and sustainable family farms through assistance to farmers in developing and implementing plans for the production of food, fiber, and value-added products, agritourism activities, marketing and sales of agricultural products produced on the farm, and other agriculturally related business activities.
• Funding conservation agreements (on farm, forest, and horticulture lands) targeted at the active production of food, fiber and other agricultural products.