Initiatives

Anchored at the Foreign Trade Zone facility adjacent to Hilo Airport, this project will establish a state-of-the-art facility for identifying and introducing new agrifood technologies and innovations to Hawai’i Island’s farmers and food producers.

Hawaiʻi Island’s Agricultural Innovation Park and Food System Campus dedicated to pioneering innovative solutions to Hawaiʻi's food scarcity and dependency problems.

Upgrade existing processing facility in Hilo to increase kitchen facilities and small scale processing capacity.

Expand breadfruit agroforestry production and processing by upgrading the East Hawai?i Island processing facility.

Increase the availability of Polynesian crops through nursery expansion and educational programing .

Integrate closed loop waste strategies.

Public-private review and collective improvement of education, training and technical services needed to build the workforce needed to enable sustain growth in the Agriculture Sector.

Train multi-stakeholder teams to identify high potential growth opportunities, establish market linkages to develop them and diffuse innovations that create a multiplier effect throughout the market system.

Increase access to technical assistance in business development, marketing, and capitalization services for farms, processors and aggregators island-wide.