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Coffee cherries, photo courtesy of Hilo Coffee Mill

Coffee cherries, photo courtesy of Hilo Coffee Mill

Agriculture has been an important part of life in Hawaii since the earliest Polynesian voyagers arrived from the Marquesas Islands with 30 “canoe plants,” including kalo (taro), breadfruit, sweet potato, yams, sugarcane, coconut and bananas. They also came with pigs and chickens. Before long, fields of kalo and sweet potatoes were widespread. During the 19th and 20th centuries, agriculture became big business in the Islands—sugar, pineapple, coffee, beef, dairy, and more recently, aquaculture, artisan vegetables and exotic fruit.

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