STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1070-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3023

      S.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Development & Business, to which was referred S.B. No. 3023, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND MARKETING OF THE ULU BREADFRUIT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support the development of breadfruit (‘ulu as it is named in Hawaiian), a local plant with promising potential as a food source, into a major crop in Hawaii by appropriating funds to the Agribusiness Development Corporation for research, development, and marketing of breadfruit.

The Department of Agriculture, University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Hawaii Farmers Union United, Kona Chapter-Hawaii Farmers Union United, and two individuals supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Economic Development & Business that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3023, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Agriculture and Economic Development & Business,

____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair

____________________________ JESSICA WOOLEY, Chair