06-14-2016, 06:33 AM
alaskyn66-
That article you linked was from 2014. Since that time, Richard Ha, the first person interviewed in the story has gone out of the vegetable business:
Hawaii’s supply of locally grown tomatoes has gotten considerably smaller after one of the state’s biggest producers decided to exit the business.
Richard Ha, Hamakua Springs president, said his greenhouse and hydroponic system equipment needed replacing but was going to cost three times what he originally invested to establish the tomato operation in 2002.
“We just couldn’t make the numbers work,”?he said. “The plants themselves are not producing any more.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015...-business/
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
That article you linked was from 2014. Since that time, Richard Ha, the first person interviewed in the story has gone out of the vegetable business:
Hawaii’s supply of locally grown tomatoes has gotten considerably smaller after one of the state’s biggest producers decided to exit the business.
Richard Ha, Hamakua Springs president, said his greenhouse and hydroponic system equipment needed replacing but was going to cost three times what he originally invested to establish the tomato operation in 2002.
“We just couldn’t make the numbers work,”?he said. “The plants themselves are not producing any more.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015...-business/
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky
"I'm at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5, you're right - have fun." - Keanu Reeves