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Kohala Councilman Pete Hoffmann released the following statement on the ADP: On April 19, the Council’s Agricultural, Water and Energy Sustainability Committee recommended approval of the long-awaited Agricultural Development Plan (ADP). Prepared by The Kohala Center, the ADP is really not a plan – as Councilman Angel Pilago correctly reminded us. The document the Council […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaii Island is home to 64 percent of the agricultural land in the state. According to the Census of Agriculture sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2007, roughly 12 percent of the total farmland on the island was devoted to crop production and 71 percent was pastureland.  The Rocky Mountain Institute […]

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