Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 224 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for pineapple research.

Your Committee received testimony in favor of this measure from the Board of Agriculture, University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii.

Your Committee finds that due to the importance of Hawaii's pineapple industry to Hawaii's agriculture industry and overall economy, further support of pineapple research is warranted. The appropriation provided by this measure will help with the funding of ongoing and new pineapple research.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B.

No. 224 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.