Description of Bill: RELATING TO BEGINNING FARMER TRAINING. - Establishes a 5-year beginning farmer training program to be administered by the Department of Agriculture. Appropriates moneys.
Testimony: I strongly support this bill because I recognize that 90% of our food and supplies arrives on a barge and Hawaiʻi has the perfect conditions to represent the standard for ample food growth. I also recognize that most of our farmers are in the ages of 60 or older.
Once upon a time, Hawaiʻi was an archipelago that fed well over a million people. The ahupuaʻa system model well presents the potential that we could build in sustainable productivity.
These farmer training programs teach our young farmers how to achieve this level of sustainability and how to make a profitable business plan to become a part of a larger solution that combats climate change while producing food, lightening the costs or effects of dependency upon social welfare to survive, bring essential skills to our aspiring farmers and create a holistic and family friendly atmosphere that increases our local economy, thus helping our residents to remain residents in Hawaiʻi. Weʻve got to stop sending our families away, due to lack of sustainability in a place called home.
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Updated - February 6, 2020
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Ruderman, K. Rhoads, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.
The committee(s) on AEN recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in AEN were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Gabbard, Ruderman, K. Rhoads, L. Thielen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.
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