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mthayer@maui.net Volunteers separate seeds and pulp from halved cacao pods during Friday’s harvest at Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate’s Lahaina farm. The workers are sitting next to next to piles of just-harvested pods, as well as a growing stack of empties. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo There is an old witticism in agriculture that starts with a question and ends with a pithy observation on how difficult it is to turn a profit. How do you become a millionaire farmer? Start with $10 million and keep farming. Maui Ku’ia Estate Chocolate founder and CEO Gunars Valkirs faced his $10 million question in 2016. Realizing his Lahaina cacao farm was looking at a decade of losses before it would even approach a yearly break-even, it was time to decide whether to pull the plug or go all in by building a factory to process the beans that would be produced. He and his wife, JoRene, not only elected to build the $10 million factory, they doubled down on their commit

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