Laserfiche WebLink
Waipi`o Agriculture <br />Objective 12: Preserve traditional subsistence practices and <br />encourage a reciprocity (e.g. bartering) economy as a sustainable <br />complement to Hamakua's resource-based economy. <br />Objective 2: Protect and restore viable agricultural lands and <br />resources. _ <br />"Restoration of all the <br />taro farms." <br />"Help keep taro farming alive." <br />WHAT HAMAKUA SAID <br />"Waipi`o growing kalo to feed <br />its people." <br />"Able to sustain ourselves - <br />provide our own food." <br />EAstingPo'lletes & Plans Irw <br />14 <br />Challenges <br />CDPV6]ue-Added <br />• Important Agricultural Lands Protections, <br />. Much of Valley owned by one entity <br />. Support the development of tax relief measures or <br />• Nonconforming uses on agricultural lands <br />and leased to various farmers — <br />incentives for growing taro (Policy 55, Kokua Action <br />regulated, <br />future management of land in <br />29) <br />• Soil and Water Conservation Districts provide <br />question, <br />. Protect taro -growing lands (Kokua Action 25), <br />support; <br />• Tourism related agricultural impacts; <br />. Advocate for funding future flooding <br />g to prevent g <br />• Agricultural -Based Commercial Operation <br />' Agricultural zoning of land allows for <br />damage (Kokua Action 28). <br />Certification (as per HRS 205-2(d)(15), <br />agricultural uses, and ag-based <br />commercial operations —stricter <br />• Taro Security and Purity Task Force 2010 <br />zoning would restrict ag uses (e.g., <br />Legislative Report. <br />taro); <br />. Valley vulnerable to flooding <br />events/crop damage. <br />Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 3 <br />