STAND. COM. REP. NO.193-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1996
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1996 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR AGRICULTURAL
     RESEARCH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for fiscal
year 2000-2001 for research to control the heart rot of coconut
palms caused by Phytophthora katsurae, a fungal pathogen.

     Your Committee finds that the heart rot is a serious disease
of coconut trees found on the windward and northern shores of
Maui, Oahu, Kauai, and East and West Hawaii.

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from the
Board of Agriculture, the College of Tropical Agriculture and
Human Resources, University of Hawaii at Manoa, the Hawaii Farm
Bureau Federation, the Mayor, County of Maui, the Maui County
Farm Bureau, and the Hawaii Coconut Protectors.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
1996 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Finance.


 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Agriculture,



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                                   FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair