10-29-2013, 06:22 AM
The reason the seed companies are not here on the Big Island is because "lose money". There isn't flat lands, deep soil, full sunshine with irrigation. Industrial scale tractors make money on the straight away and lose money on the turns.
In our headlong panic to pass bill 113, we are willing to throw our farmers under the bus. These are farmers who provide 90% or more of the food calories produced on the Big Island.
We need all food producers to feed us all. But, criminalizing farmers when they try to use new biotech solutions is the height of silliness.