Report Title:

Agribusiness Development Corporation; Agriculture; Definition

Description:

Includes in the definition of "agriculture" for purposes of the Agribusiness Development Corporation law, growing of crops for fuel and production of energy.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	395
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to agriculture.

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

SECTION 1.  Section 163D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "agriculture" to read as follows:

""Agriculture" means the production for marketing and exporting of plant and animal life on land and within ponds and other bodies of water for food, fiber, and raw materials for value-added products, and any agricultural enterprise or enterprises organized for the production of agricultural materials or value-added products based on detailed marketing analysis and strategies to exploit profitable potentials in local, national, and international markets, including general farming, cane growing, fruit growing, flower growing, aquaculture, growing of timber and forest products, apiary, grazing, growing of crops for fuel or the production of energy, dairying, and the production of any form of livestock or poultry, and their appurtenant services and facilities."

SECTION 2.  New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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