REPORT TITLE:
Hawaii's papaya industry


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $100,000 for fiscal year 1999-2000 to develop new
markets and expand existing market for Hawaii's papaya industry;
provided the Papaya Administrative Committee provides $50,000 for
this purpose.  (HB1632 HD2)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 2
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO AGRICULTURE.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that Hawaii's papaya
 
 2 industry was devastated by the papaya ring spot virus (PRV) in
 
 3 the early 1990s.  Production gradually dropped from 58.2 million
 
 4 pounds in 1993 to thirty-five million pounds in 1998, a decrease
 
 5 of almost forty per cent in five years.  The legislature further
 
 6 finds that the papaya industry in Hawaii has been boosted by the
 
 7 development of a new transgenic papaya known as the Rainbow and
 
 8 Sunup papaya that is resistant to the PRV.  This variety of
 
 9 papaya is of a very high quality and and promises to be a
 
10 bountiful crop, with the first harvest expected in mid-1999.
 
11 Production in 1999 is projected to be over forty million pounds
 
12 and is projected to produce sixty million pounds by 2002.
 
13      The legislature further finds that the transgenic papaya
 
14 needs to be effectively mass marketed on the U.S. mainland and
 
15 around the world to reap economic development for the State.  The
 
16 State's papaya industry also needs to recapture its market share
 
17 in the U.S. mainland, especially as its market share decline from
 
18 fifty-seven per cent in 1993 to fourteen per cent in 1996.  Two
 
19 factors explain this decline:  a significant decline in the
 
20 volume of Hawaii papaya production due to the PRV and rapidly
 

 
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 1 increased growth of the U.S. mainland market demand that was
 
 2 filled by imports from foreign sources.
 
 3      The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to develop
 
 4 new market and expanding existing markets for Hawaii's papaya
 
 5 industry.
 
 6      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 7 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $100,000 or so much
 
 8 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000 to develop
 
 9 new market and expand existing markets for Hawaii's papaya
 
10 industry; provided that no funds shall be made available under
 
11 this Act unless the Papaya Administrative Committee provides
 
12 $50,000 for the purpose for which this sum is appropriated.
 
13      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
14 department of agriculture for the purposes of this Act.
 
15      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.