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The Economic Impacts of Increasing Hawai`is Food Self Sufficiency (2 posts)

  • Profile picture of Maui Aloha Aina Maui Aloha Aina said 1 year, 10 months ago:

    Attached is a seven page report on a study done by the Cooperative Extension Service of the UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources forwarded to me by Sol Kaho`ohalahala’s campaign.

    In short, the study identifies $3.7 billion that resident consumers spent on food in ’04-’05 and with 85% of this imported, we are sending $3.1 billion leaving our economy.  If we just replaced 10% of this with locally grown and raised food, we would have a $313 million market.    This translates to $94 million at the farm level. 
    Check out the report.   I will be reading it more closely and sharing what I find.  You should too.
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  • Profile picture of David B. Fisher David B. Fisher said 1 year, 9 months ago:

    With visitor spending it goes up to close to $7 billion. So you could almost double all of these numbers. Not sure why they are not including the visitors? Maybe thinking of a scenario where there are none?

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