REPORT TITLE:
Hawaii's papaya industry


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $2 for fiscal year 1999-2000 to develop new markets
and expand existing markets for Hawaii's papaya industry;
provided the Papaya Administrative Committee provides $1 for this
purpose.  (HB1632 HD3)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES                H.B. NO.           H.D. 3
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 in the
 
 3 early 1990s.  Production gradually dropped from over fifty-eight
 
 4 million pounds in 1993, to thirty-five million pounds in 1998, a
 
 5 decrease of almost forty per cent in five years.  The legislature
 
 6 further finds that the papaya industry in Hawaii has been boosted
 
 7 by the development of a new transgenic papaya known as the
 
 8 Rainbow and Sunup papaya that is resistant to the papaya ring
 
 9 spot virus.  This variety of papaya is of very high quality and
 
10 promises to be a bountiful crop, with the first harvest expected
 
11 in mid-1999.  Production is projected to be over forty million
 
12 pounds in 1999, and sixty million pounds in 2002.
 
13      The legislature further finds that the transgenic papaya
 
14 needs to be effectively mass marketed on the United States
 
15 mainland and around the world to reap economic development for
 
16 the State.  The State's papaya industry also needs to recapture
 
17 its market share on the United States mainland, especially as its
 
18 market share declined from fifty-seven per cent in 1993, to
 
19 fourteen per cent in 1996.  Two factors explain this decline:  a
 

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