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Hawaii

ellisonz

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2. What's wrong with this picture is a couple things...

Reply to formercia (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 24, 2012, 03:24 PM

Apr 2012

1. The price of water has gone way up as a result of increasing demand and drought: Star Advertiser Story from 2010

2. The price of land similarly continues to rise.

3. Shipping into Hawaii is practically a monopoly and very expensive for all the equipment you need to run a farm.

The combined result is that for many things it is cheaper to ship into Hawaii than to ship interisland or even cross-island for both importing equipment, fertilizer etc. and for exporting product.

The agriculture that is blossoming is doing so despite these factors aligned against it's success. Simply, it's cheaper to import frozen food from the mainland than to produce it in Hawaii.

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