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Promoting Hawaii-Grown Products

Posted on Jan 11, 2013 in What's New

Hawaii products represent quality and freshness and HDOA spreads the word along with the Aloha here at home and around the world through the Buy Local, It Matters and the Hawaii Seals of Quality programs.

HDOA’s Animal Industry Division inspects incoming livestock animals to prevent diseases and parasites from entering the state.  It also conducts animal disease surveillance to monitor the health of animals in Hawaii.

Hawaii’s farmers and ranchers depend on affordable irrigation water. HDOA’s Agriculture Resource Management Division works hard to keep Hawaii’s aging irrigation systems in service.

NR-13  Jan.3, 2013 HONOLULU – A live raccoon was captured aboard a Matson cargo ship on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012 after the ship arrived from Long Beach, Calif. Matson personnel called the Hawaii Department of Agriculture Monday afternoon after seeing a raccoon scampering on the deck of the ship. Plant quarantine inspectors were dispatched with ...
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