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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
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New Bill from Guam Delegate to Legalize Cockfighting in U.S. Territories
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 458 Views :: Agriculture, Congressional Delegation, Drugs
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... Similar legislation has been introduced by Delegate from Puerto Rico and attracted no support from any sitting U.S. Senator or U.S. Representative from the states ....
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023 |
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VIDEO: Challenges Facing Hawaii Agriculture
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:24 PM :: 1244 Views :: Agriculture
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... barriers to farming in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, July 6, 2023 |
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Animal Welfare Groups Urge Ninth Circuit to Affirm the Ban on Cockfighting in the Northern Mariana Islands
By News Release @ 12:16 PM :: 1091 Views :: Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... The case, on appeal before the Ninth Circuit from the Northern Mariana Islands District Court, is the latest—and likely the last—in a stream of cases filed by the pro-cockfighting bloc to obstruct the ban on cockfighting in U.S. territories. ...
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Thursday, May 11, 2023 |
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Senators Introduce FIGHT Act to Enhance Enforcement and Crack Down on Dogfighting, Cockfighting
By News Release @ 4:46 PM :: 1531 Views :: Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... A mass shooting at known illegal cockfighting venue outside Honolulu demonstrates that the violence from animal-fighting enterprises spills into communities, harms people ....
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023 |
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Axis Deer Venison: Opportunity for Hawaii Ranchers?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:11 PM :: 1669 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture
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... On today’s episode of 'Hawaii Together,' host Keli'i Akina speaks with Mayer about the state of Hawaii’s meat industry ....
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023 |
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DLNR, DOA Continue Act 90 Partnership
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 1556 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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... to transfer non-ag park lands to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) for agricultural production ....
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Sunday, March 26, 2023 |
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Prince Kuhio's Fight to Americanize Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 6:01 AM :: 33339 Views :: DHHL, Agriculture, Hawaii History, Land Use
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...the homestead associations he championed in his first decade of service were multi-ethnic groups seeking the fee-simple ownership of land promised in the Hawaii Organic Act....
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Wednesday, March 15, 2023 |
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Promoting Local Foods in Hawaii; Removing Barriers is Key to Growth
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:08 AM :: 1310 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business
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... The state has used numerous strategies to achieve that goal, but with mixed success ....
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Saturday, March 11, 2023 |
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Supreme Court Says 'No' to Homeless Camps on Ag Land
By News Release @ 1:11 AM :: 1719 Views :: Agriculture, Homelessness, Land Use
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... Hawaiʻi law expressly excludes overnight camps from the definition of permitted uses on Class A and B agricultural lands ....
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023 |
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Shootout as FBI Raids 800-Person Cockfight--Four Arrested
By News Release @ 3:54 AM :: 3297 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Law Enforcement, Drugs
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... the 800-person cockfight was busted at Hokukano Ranch which is promoted as a Big Island film location ....
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Sunday, February 19, 2023 |
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PILOT for Real Property Tax
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:00 AM :: 2050 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Agriculture, Tax Credits, Taxes
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... The owner in the previous year paid $30,154 in property tax and got a bill for $835,710, resulting in an extremely unhappy owner ....
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Friday, February 10, 2023 |
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DLNR, Agriculture Department to Settle on Pasture Management?
By News Release @ 11:00 AM :: 987 Views :: Agriculture, Land Use
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... whether certain lands could be transferred from DLNR jurisdiction to HDOA ....
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 |
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Proposed Short Term Rental Regs Could Harm Big Island Farmers, Economy.
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:19 PM :: 1477 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Small Business, Tourism
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... Some members of the Hawaii County Council are proposing tighter regulations on hosted short-term rentals ....
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023 |
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Hawaii ranked as most expensive state to buy eggs
By Selected News Articles @ 3:36 AM :: 1503 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... the average cost for a dozen eggs in Hawaii is about $9.73. That's 51% higher than a year earlier and 53% higher than #2 Florida ....
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Friday, December 30, 2022 |
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Department of Agriculture Awards 579 Microgrants
By News Release @ 1:40 AM :: 1252 Views :: Agriculture
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... 579 grants, totaling $2,684,350, for small-scale agriculture; including home gardening, herding and livestock operations ....
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Friday, September 2, 2022 |
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Legislature Paves Way for Issuance of SPRBs for Carbon Credits – Or Does It?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 PM :: 2186 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Ethics, Agriculture, Development
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... there is a line item for renting four 480-square-foot units from the Four Seasons for nearly $300,000 a year ....
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Thursday, April 28, 2022 |
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HB1434 'Dangerous' -- Eminent Domain Property Seizures
By Selected News Articles @ 8:21 PM :: 2403 Views :: Honolulu County, Agriculture, Land Use
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... It’s one of the best-kept secrets this session ....
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Thursday, April 21, 2022 |
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Water to be Restored to Five Molokai Streams
By News Release @ 2:02 PM :: 1724 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Agriculture
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... For more than a century these streams were almost fully diverted and often dry ....
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Monday, April 18, 2022 |
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SB2070: $50M for ‘thinly veiled scam’?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:02 PM :: 2540 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Agriculture
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... When a couple of penny-stock touts, one of whom is listed in the Panama Papers, team up to sell timber futures and carbon credits what does the Legislature do? ....
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022 |
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Agribusiness Development Corporation--Auditor Finds 'Material Weakness'
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:16 AM :: 1669 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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... resulting in misstatements in eight different ADC accounts and a three-year delay in financial reporting ....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022 |
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State Releases Agricultural Land Use Baseline Study
By News Release @ 9:00 AM :: 1347 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics
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... the 2020 baseline report for the state has 886,211 total agricultural acres, a decrease of 27,050 acres, or minus 3 percent from 2015. Total acres in planted crops in 2020 was 120,632, a decrease of 31,199 acres or minus 21 percent. The loss in planted acres was attributed to the closure of the Hawai`i Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui in 2016 which removed 38,810 acres in crop acreage ....
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Friday, March 4, 2022 |
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Supreme Court Finds State Violated Water Leasing Law in East Maui
By News Release @ 7:41 PM :: 1727 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture
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... The Court held that, per state statute and BLNR’s trust duties, the BLNR should have determined—but did not—that the leases were “in the best interests of the State” before continuing them in 2014 ....
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 |
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DoH Revises Admin Rules for Marijuana and Hemp
By News Release @ 11:02 PM :: 2025 Views :: Agriculture, Small Business, Drugs
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... As of January 31, 2022, a statewide total of 33,951 in-state patients and 2,748 caregivers were registered statewide. The primary reported condition for registered adult patients is 'severe pain'. The primary reported conditions for children under 18 years of age are 'seizures' and 'severe pain' ....
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Friday, February 11, 2022 |
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HB2028 Would Legalize Limited Raw Milk Sales
By Selected News Articles @ 4:21 AM :: 4506 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, Small Business
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... Sales would be limited to farms or facilities with no more than 2 milk-bearing cows ....
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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Tunnel Vision
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:55 PM :: 4278 Views :: Agriculture, Labor, Small Business, Cost of Living, GMOs
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... The legislature appears to be dead set on ignoring the entire impact of short term solutions and catchy soundbites ....
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Saturday, January 1, 2022 |
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Act 90: 19,000 DLNR Acres Transferred to Agriculture Department
By News Release @ 10:03 PM :: 1894 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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... fulfilling the purposes of Act 90, Session Laws of Hawaii 2003 ....
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Thursday, December 23, 2021 |
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Appeals court affirms federal authority to ban cockfighting in US territories
By News Release @ 3:42 PM :: 1803 Views :: Agriculture, Law Enforcement
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“The challenges originating in Guam and Puerto Rico to the federal law banning all animal fighting have been turned back by four federal courts and also denied by the U.S. Supreme Court”
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Thursday, December 9, 2021 |
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Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegally Using Pesticide at Corn Growing Fields in Hawaii
By News Release @ 8:41 PM :: 2254 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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... Monsanto Company agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii ....
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Thursday, December 9, 2021 |
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Billionaire Helps Solar Developers Grab More Ag Land
By News Release @ 5:24 PM :: 2366 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy, Agriculture
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... Billionaire Omidyar helps solar developers sharpen up their sales pitch to overcome community resistance to the solar grab for agricultural lands ....
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Tuesday, November 30, 2021 |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2021 |
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NOAA-Supported Aquaculture Projects Seek to Build Hawaiʻi Seafood Sustainability
By News Release @ 12:28 AM :: 2235 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Small Business
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... Aquaculture projects with Hawaiian sea cucumbers and goatfish could benefit ancient fishponds and commercial aquaculture operators ....
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 |
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The Cost of Disinformation
By Joni Kamiya @ 11:55 PM :: 2930 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs, COVID-19
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... Hearing after hearing, the least informed made so many false claims and none could ever be corroborated with data. Like a virus, that same disinformation was repeated over and over until it was believed as fact. Not one politician asked these testifiers for evidence ever. ...
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Friday, August 27, 2021 |
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Maui Council Passes Organic Pesticide and Fertilizer Bill
By News Release @ 2:45 AM :: 2603 Views :: Maui County, Environment, Agriculture
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... Bill No. 72, which only allows pesticides and fertilizers that are compatible with organic systems and permitted under the USDA National Organic Program to be used on county property ....
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 |
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Instream Flows Set for Taro-Growing Areas of Kauai, Maui
By News Release @ 3:01 AM :: 2528 Views :: Kauai County, Maui County, Agriculture
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... the Commission approving of natural streamflow conditions to serve as the instream flow standard ....
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021 |
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EEOC Collects Over $4.8 Million on Judgment in Labor Trafficking Case Against Maui Pineapple
By News Release @ 11:41 PM :: 2582 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Labor
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... $4.8 million has been recovered to satisfy a judgment in a national origin and race discrimination lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Maui Pineapple ....
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Saturday, April 10, 2021 |
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DLNR hands out more dam fines
By News Release @ 3:05 PM :: 2982 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Agriculture
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... Ka’u dam has been empty since about 2010 ....
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021 |
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DLNR: Court Ruling Balances Municipal Water Needs with Protection of East Maui Streams
By News Release @ 11:17 PM :: 3276 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Greenmail, OHA
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...“This is a classic balancing”, the court ruled, “and the court is persuaded and finds and concludes that applying the applicable law…it was not unreasonable for the BLNR to balance these considerations as it did.”...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 |
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Maui: Drought and Flood Disasters Declared on Same Day
By News Release @ 4:48 AM :: 2443 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture
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... March 9, 2021: Feds declare Maui drought disaster, State declares Maui flood disaster ....
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021 |
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Flooded Kaupakalua Dam Slated for Removal this Summer
By News Release @ 4:28 AM :: 2422 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture
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... A Notice of Civil Resource Violation from DLNR for “failure to comply with the remediation and monitoring actions and deadlines...” was issued on February 24, 2021 ....
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Friday, February 19, 2021 |
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Bill to Dissolve Agribusiness Development Corporation Passed Out of House Committee
By News Release @ 6:45 PM :: 2716 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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...HB1271 dissolves the Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC) and transfers all its resource except the director to the Department of Agriculture....
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Saturday, January 23, 2021 |
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Agribusiness Development Corp: "Costly, disorganized and ineffective"
By UHERO @ 1:06 AM :: 2643 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture
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... ADC’s emphasis on land acquisition has made it a costly, disorganized and ineffective program while the state and counties have failed to fulfill their promises to landowners participating in the IAL program ....
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Friday, January 15, 2021 |
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30 Years Without a Plan -- Auditor Rips Agribusiness Development Corp.
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:36 AM :: 4446 Views :: Ethics, Agriculture, Hawaii State Government
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"...ADC has done little – if anything – to facilitate the development of agricultural enterprises...the State can no longer wait for ADC to figure out what it is, what it is supposed to do, and how it is supposed to do it...."
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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How to diversify Hawaii's economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:35 PM :: 3250 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Tourism
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“...If all of us had to go back and work in the agricultural sector, we’re not as productive in that, and we would lose income....”
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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Debunking Hawaii Pesticide Study
By Selected News Articles @ 11:30 PM :: 3088 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...‘Heavy’ pesticide exposure linked to cardiovascular disease? Flawed study raises ‘troubling’ questions about public health research....
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Friday, September 25, 2020 |
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Atrazine to Be Banned in Hawaii, Territories
By News Release @ 11:26 PM :: 2961 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...in the wake of a legal agreement between the EPA and the Center for Biological Diversity and Pesticide Action Network North America....
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020 |
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Hawaii Cockfighters Among Top Traffickers of Animals to Guam, Philippines for Illegal Activity, Investigation Alleges
By News Release @ 7:29 PM :: 4042 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Agriculture, Law Enforcement
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...12 of the people named have addresses on the Big Island — four in Hilo, two in Pahoa, two in Waimea, one in Keaau, one in Kealakekua, one in Mountain View and one in Hawi. The remaining 10 addresses are on Oahu....
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 |
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DHHL Seeks Input on Agriculture Program Plan
By News Release @ 8:53 PM :: 2774 Views :: DHHL, Agriculture
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... The Plan will guide the Department’s efforts to grow more successful native Hawaiian farmers on Hawaiian Home Lands by identifying programmatic supports and technical assistance for both agriculture homestead Waiting List Applicants and existing Lessees ....
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