10-20-2008, 07:19 AM
Dr W, glad to get your input in this subject. Please correct my assumptions if need be.
Keys to success to include outright ownership of ag land, the more the better with water, be able to write grants, get major university to start crops and fully advise, install a subsidy or a price guarantee, arrange cheap labor with no benefits, incorporate to avoid any personal losses beyond initial investment (like SF, Ormat or HECO).
Even knowing this enterprise will open us up to the new sugar to ethanol industry by precident. Also where is this new crop to be refined? If you succeed, what will stop an agri giant from buying up most of Puna's ag land and following suit. It seems to me everyone including you is promoting food farming, why not grow what we need?
Keys to success to include outright ownership of ag land, the more the better with water, be able to write grants, get major university to start crops and fully advise, install a subsidy or a price guarantee, arrange cheap labor with no benefits, incorporate to avoid any personal losses beyond initial investment (like SF, Ormat or HECO).
Even knowing this enterprise will open us up to the new sugar to ethanol industry by precident. Also where is this new crop to be refined? If you succeed, what will stop an agri giant from buying up most of Puna's ag land and following suit. It seems to me everyone including you is promoting food farming, why not grow what we need?
Gordon J Tilley