STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2010

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2002
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2002 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL
     RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,000,000,
for fiscal year 2000-2001, for agricultural research and
development to be performed by the Hawaii Agriculture Research
Center.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Agriculture, the College of Tropical Agriculture
and Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii
Agriculture Research Center (HARC), Hawaii Farm Bureau, Maui
County Farm Bureau, Hawai`i Forest Industry Association,
Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, Alexander and Baldwin,
Inc., Aloha Farms, Inc., Gay & Robinson, Inc., Garst Hawaii
Station, Oils of Aloha, Waialua Farmers Cooperative, and one
individual.

     Your Committee finds that with new economic opportunities
emerging as prime agricultural land becomes available, the need
for research on a variety of agricultural commodities is crucial
to maintain high quality and compete in a global market.  HARC
has been in the forefront on applied agricultural research in
such programs as coffee breeding and selection, and papaya
propagation and transfer of the transgenic traits to other lines

 
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of papaya.  Your Committee further finds that HARC works closely
with other agricultural entities, and receives funding from
several sources, including the industry.  Your Committee is
supportive of the work of HARC and finds that this appropriation
is beneficial to the success of Hawaii's agricultural industry.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2002 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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