SB 624 RELATING TO AGRICULTURE

SB 624 requires the board of agriculture, in cooperation with the office of the governor, to develop a strategic plan to double local food production and exports by 2020. Requires the board of agriculture to submit a report to the legislature prior to the regular session of 2018 in order to codify the strategic plan and benchmarks.

• Date: February 3, 2017 at 1:15 p.m.
• Committee: Senate Committee on Agriculture and Environment
• Testifier: Rachel Novotny, Interim Dean and J. Kenneth Grace, Associate Dean, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Testimony (PDF)