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Department of Agriculture Looking for Farmers to Apply for $250,000 Grants
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Fewer Farmers Are Growing Hawaii s Miracle Food Taro Despite Growing Demand
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February 22, 2021
Federal and state budget cuts, combined with challenges in gathering data, have led to a shrinkage of up-to-date, accessible and comprehensive agricultural data in Hawaii in recent years.
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Farmers, policymakers and others involved in agriculture say that hampers their ability to make critical decisions, including what crops to grow or invest in.
They also say it leads to murkiness about the reality of farming in Hawaii, especially land use.
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Many of the most useful datasets in agriculture are outdated. The Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline has a 2015 timestamp, though that one is being updated this year.
State and federal agencies still publish data and reports about farming. But several data and market analysis programs have been discontinued in the past decade, including monthly reports on select Hawaii crops. Other reports have reduced frequencies.
Hawaii Farmers Need Better Data To Make Decisions
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Hawaii Grown: The Islands Pastures And Croplands - Honolulu Civil Beat
The amount of land used for farming in Hawaii has shrunk dramatically since the 1930s.
Nearly half of Hawaii’s lands are designated for agriculture, but only a fraction of the state’s 4.1 million acres are used for farming.
Federal data shows that in 2017 when the most recent agricultural census was conducted only 8% of the state’s agricultural lands were used for growing crops. Another 18.5% was used for grazing animals, 8% was woodlands and another 8% was categorized as “other,” which includes farmsteads, homes, buildings and livestock facilities.
Although access to land is one of the biggest challenges for would-be farmers in Hawaii, an analysis of state and federal data shows no shortage of agricultural land.