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Entering the 52nd annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival that runs through Nov. 12, farmers are celebrating higher yields and healthier crops throughout the Kona region due to more rain and better management of the killer fungus.
Finding workers is hard in Hawaii, so many farms pay extra, but lifting the benchmark to $18 could present a new set of problems for farmers.
February 22, 2021 Federal and state budget cuts, combined with challenges in gathering data, have led to a shrinkage of up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive agricultural data in Hawaii in recent years. Subscribe Farmers, policymakers and others involved in agriculture say that hampers their ability to make critical decisions, including what crops to grow or invest in. They also say it leads to murkiness about the reality of farming in Hawaii, especially land use. Subscribe Many of the most useful datasets in agriculture are outdated. The Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline has a 2015...
Hawaii Grown: The Islands' Pastures And Croplands - Honolulu Civil Beat The amount of land used for farming in Hawaii has shrunk dramatically since the 1930s. Nearly half of Hawaii’s lands are designated for agriculture, but only a fraction of the state’s 4.1 million acres are used for farming. Federal data shows that in 2017 — when the most recent agricultural census was conducted — only 8% of the state’s agricultural lands were used for growing crops. Another 18.5% was used for grazing animals, 8% was woodlands and another 8% was categorized as “other,” which includes farmste...