STAND. COM. REP. NO. 987

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 333
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred H.B. No. 333, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
research and development of agricultural products.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Agriculture, the University of Hawaii
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, the Hawaii
Farm Bureau Federation, the Big Island Farm Bureau, the Hawaii
Macadamia Nut Association, Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers, the
Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii, the Hawaii Florists' and
Shippers' Association, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, the
Big Island Banana Growers Association, the Big Island Dendrobium
Grower's Association, the Oahu Banana Growers Association, and
Kea`au Banana Plantation.

     Your Committee finds that diversified agriculture is
Hawaii's major growth industry at the current time, and promoting
this industry is in the best interests of the State and its
future development.  This measure will provide funds for both
research and marketing of a variety of agricultural products.

     Your Committee is supportive of this measure and believes it
contributes to the continuing success of diversified agriculture.

 
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Your Committee has amended the measure to add funding for the
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and to add funding for the
second year of the biennium for all of the listed projects.

     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 H.B. No. 333, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B.
No. 333, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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