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ARTICLE VI CREATION OF VOLUNTARY AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS A. Regions 1. 2. 3. 4. B. Implementation County is hereby divided into regions as defined below: In order to implement the purposes stated in Article III, this program provides for the creation of voluntary agricultural districts which meet the following standards: 1. The District shall contain a minimum of contiguous acres of qualified farmland; or 2. The District shall contain or more qualified farms within areas designated by the Advisory Board. All land enrolled in a region, defined in section A, above, shall be part of a single district. If a single farm has acreage in two or more regions, the farm shall participate in the district where the largest acreage is found. C. Education The county may take such action as it deems appropriate through the Advisory Board or other entities or individuals to encourage the formation of the Districts. and to further their purposes and objectives, including the implementation of a public information program to reasonably inform landowners of the agricultural district program. D. Addition and Withdrawal 1. Qualifying farmland in a region with an existing district shall be. added to the district as herein provided. 2. In the event that one or more participants in the District withdraw and the acreage in the District becomes less than the minimum acreage required or results in the remaining land being noncontiguous, a voluntary agricultural district will continue to exist so long as there is one qualifying farm. ARTICLE VII CERTIFICATION AND QUALIFICATION OF FARMLAND Requirements To secure county certification as qualifying farmland, a farm must: Be participating in the farm present- use -value taxation program established by N.C.G.S. § 105 -277.2 through §105-277.7, or is otherwise determined by the county to meet all the qualifications of this program set forth in G.S. 105 -277.3 ;