Thursday, August 30, 2001
Hawaii gets ginger with it
Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
Ginger root farmers in Hawaii have ended the 2001 season with their second-largest harvest on record, 16.2 million pounds.
The Hawaii Agricultural Service reports this is 20 percent higher than the previous season and close to the all-time 18 million pound harvest in 1998.
Farm prices declined 18 percent to an average 45 cents per pound. Ginger is highly perishable and high production always sends prices lower.
Acreage grew by one third in the season just ended. Farmers say they intend to plant about 6 percent more acreage in the next season.
Ginger farming is done mostly on the Big Island and mostly on the windward side on either side of Hilo.
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