02-19-2025, 03:47 PM
(02-19-2025, 03:04 PM)leilanidude Wrote: Federal money represents a significant funding line for Hawaiʻi’s $700 million agricultural industry, which lawmakers continue to promote as important for the islands’ self-sufficiency and sustainability.
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The provisioning of federal money has been ongoing so long, for the state's agriculture industry, that one could easily argue that it is a failure and there is no self-sufficiency or sustainability.
How significant? Last year it appears the figure was $525k. https://www.ams.usda.gov/content/usda-an...op-growers