NR17-11 June 29, 2017 HONOLULU – About 500 coffee-growing kits imported from the U.S. Mainland are being pulled from shelves at Longs Drugs stores statewide after the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) was informed that the product was being sold. HDOA personnel have accounted for all but 10 (updated number) kits that were sold on ...
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NR17-10 June 23, 2017 HONOLULU – Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB) survey crews from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) have detected an infestation of the plant-damaging beetles in small mulch piles on a farm located on Waiawa Road on the Pearl City Peninsula. This is north of the previously known infestation zone which involved mainly ...
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NR-17-09 May 30, 2017 HONOLULU – A Waianae family captured an illegal bearded dragon lizard at their home yesterday afternoon and called inspectors at the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA). The lizard was found in their yard on Hakalina Rd., a few blocks from where another bearded dragon was captured in April 2016. It is ...
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NR17-08 May 24, 2017 Eradication Program Successful HONOLULU — The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has declared that little fire ants (LFA) have been eradicated from the Mililani Mauka neighborhood that was found to be infested in June 2014. This morning, a multi-agency pest detection crew conducted the final survey of homes in the infestation ...
Read More Mililani Mauka Neighborhood Free of Little Fire Ants
USDA NASS News Release May 19, 2017 HONOLULU, HAWAII – The Census of Agriculture is coming in December and to prepare, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will visit Hawaii farm and ranch properties now through the end of June. The agency will conduct an area survey across Hawaii to determine ...
Read More Hawaii Farms Count! 2017 Census of Agriculture
NR17-07 March 15, 2017 HONOLULU – The Hawaii Board of Agriculture yesterday expanded the coffee berry borer (CBB) quarantine to the island of Maui, effective May 1, 2017. The quarantine, which has been in effect on Hawaii Island and Oahu, restricts the interisland movement of coffee and other CBB hosts and requires treatment and other ...
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The Agricultural Resource Management Division has posted a notice for Waimanalo Irrigation System users regarding the lowering of water levels at the Waimanalo Reservoir. To view the notice, click here.
NR17-06 March 1, 2017 HAWAII BEEKEEPERS ALERTED TO REEMERGENCE OF BEE DISEASE HONOLULU — The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is sending out an alert to Hawaii beekeepers about a new case of a destructive bee disease, American foulbrood (AFB). AFB wiped out much of Hawaii’s honeybee population in the 1930’s and spores of the ...
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NR17-5 Feb. 13, 2017 HONOLULU – A six-foot-long iguana was turned in yesterday by a resident in Waimanalo who found the lizard while doing yard work. The resident contained the animal and called the State’s toll-free Pest Hotline at about noon yesterday and inspectors from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) picked up the iguana ...
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NR17-04 Feb. 2, 2017 HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is investigating the source of coffee plants found at a Home Depot on Kauai earlier this week. Coffee plants from islands infested with the coffee berry borer (CBB) are restricted from being transported to uninfested islands, such as Kauai. Hawaii Island, Oahu and ...
Read More HDOA Quarantines Coffee Plants on Kauai that may have been shipped from Oahu