STAND. COM. REP. NO.144

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 539

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 539 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AGRICULTURE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to plan, construct, and equip a terminal market pilot program and vacuum cooling plant on the Big Island.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Agriculture and the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

Your Committees find that this project would facilitate more efficient consolidation, processing, distribution and marketing of multiple agricultural products from the Neighbor Islands. Consolidation and coordination of small and medium volume crops could lower transaction costs, allow Neighbor Island products to be more competitive, and maximize the growers' profits.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and

purpose of S.B. No. 539 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair