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"We're always going to make money next year. We're always going to be OK <br />next year," he said. <br />But Ornellas doesn't sound terribly optimistic when he talks about the future <br />of farming in Hawaii. <br />"Realistically, things don't look good. Agriculture is not doing well in Hawaii, <br />unfortunately, and climate change is not going to help to improve the <br />situation." <br />For farmers to thrive in the coming decades, Ornellas says, more needs to <br />be done now. <br />Hawaii's agriculture has been in transition for a long time, moving away from <br />the plantation era into a system of more diversified agriculture. But the larger <br />plantations used to maintain a lot of infrastructure for farming, Ornellas said. <br />Canals. Drainage ditches. Gauging stations to monitor the volumes of water <br />and stream flows — something that the east side of Kauai no longer has, he <br />said. <br />Tree crops like macadamia nuts can help reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. <br />