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NR19-11 April 23, 2019 Movement of Ohia from Hawaii Island is Restricted HONOLULU – Travelers attending the Merrie Monarch Festival this week are being reminded about quarantine restrictions on the transport of ohia from Hawaii Island due to a serious plant disease called rapid ohia death (ROD), which is devastating the native forests on that ...
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NR19-10 April 16, 2019  Local farmer produces more than a million pounds of head cabbage for Hawaii’s markets HONOLULU – The Whitmore Project has produced another record harvest on the former Galbraith lands, located between Central Oahu and the North Shore. Three years ago, Larry Jefts, owner of Kelena Farms, was the first farmer to ...
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Growing Hawaii Agriculture

Posted on Apr 15, 2019 in Main

May 9, 2019 HDOA Deputy Glenn Muranaka did a “walk-and-talk” this week through some interesting aquatic research facilities. The first stop was DLNR’s Division of Aquatic Resources’ Coral Restoration Nursery at the Anuenue Fisheries Research Center near Sand Island. The active coral nursery and archive facility raises rare corals under laboratory conditions to preserve the ...
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NR19-09 April 11, 2019 HONOLULU – The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its 2017 Census of Agriculture this morning indicating the total number of farms in Hawaii increased by about five percent since the last census in 2012, while the total market value dropped from $661 million to about $564 million during the same period. ...
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