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DARRELL & MARY JAlV~E'S <br /> FARM <br /> Darrell & Mary Jane Camacho <br /> ~y+~ <br /> 8 acres of Ag Coop lease land ~ ~~~il ~ II ~ <br /> 10 acres of Bishop Estate lease land ~ ~p4 f i <br /> Paauilo, HI <br /> Elev: 100'- 200' <br /> Crops: 3 types of taro, coffee, and green =eed <br /> 10 acres of Bishop lease in pasture with cattle. <br /> Darrell is a member of the Ag Coop and a former Hamaktta Sugar employee. His wife <br /> Mary Jane loves to help and fmds the farm very therapeutic. She says their life is <br /> enriched with the opportunity to farm on the Ag Coop leases. Darrell states that the <br /> Hamakua Ditch, " is very important for all farmers and ranchers. We would be lost <br /> without it!" He feels that the Ag Coop is doing a good job and that there are still <br /> many farmers asking for land. <br /> VALLENTE'S FARM <br /> fir-. <br /> ~ ~ <br /> Marcelino Vallente <br /> ~ acres of Ag Coop lease land <br /> = Paauilo, HI <br /> k, ~ <br /> 42 acres (FS) itapuiena, Hl <br /> ~y - _ Elev: in Paauilo 100'- 200' <br /> Crops: 42 acres of mac nuts, ;aces or papaya, banana, chili pepper, dracaena, and <br /> mac nut piatrted between ttte pspayas. Marcelino, a former Hamakua Sugar employee <br /> for 16 years, belongs to the Ag Coop and the Farmer's Bureau. He says, "that it is <br /> <br /> very, very imps=rant for me that'~.e ::amrkua ditch is going. I need the water for thi: <br /> <br /> farm." .tie feels that *.~he A cop is loin; a good job a*rd ;hat we can handle the <br /> <br /> Countv lands. <br /> <br />