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Agriculture Focused Economy <br />WHAT HAMAKUA SAID <br />Objective 11: Enhance and promote local and <br />sustainable agriculture, farming, ranching, renewable "Hamakua as an agriculture community - <br />energy, and related economic support systems. a nationally and Internationally <br />Objective 13: Promote appropriate rural tourism that " <br />welcomes guests for an alternative visitor experience. recognized brand. <br />Promote Hawais host culture and Hamakua s <br />heritage, including heritage roads and plantation <br />towns, and festivals that celebrate our rich multi- <br />cultural music, art, and agriculture.4 "Provide financial incentives for <br />agriculture to encourage farming." <br />Existing Policies & Plans Challenges�wr_ CDP Value-AddedV <br />• County Ag Capacity improvements prioritized • Idle Land: Over 60% of the land zoned <br />Financial Incentives for Agriculture: <br />in County of Hawaii Ag Development Plan, for agriculture in Hamakua is not <br />being utilized for agricultural • Support revising tax policies to ensure tax incentives <br />•County knowledge of existing resources and for agricultural uses (Policy 32, Policy 55); <br />purposes; <br />prioritization of agricultural industry focus of: <br />• Tax policies for ag land do not • Support financial incentive programs to prioritize taro <br />o Increased Food Security and Food Self- (Policy 55 Kokua Action 29)• <br />Y <br />Sufficiency Strategy (2012); necessarily incentivize highest/best ( <br />use for ag, Support Agriculture Industry by: <br />0 2012 Hawaii County Food Self <br />• Limited Farm Employment/Labor . Increase County Agriculture capacity (Policy 111), <br />Sufficiency Baseline (2012); <br />force; <br />Support agriculture water infrastructure <br />• Mauna Kea Soil & Water Conservation <br />District (SWCD) & the Hamakua SWCD • Impacts from Invasive Species/Crop improvements (Policy 116, Kokua Action 69), <br />provide ag resource support; Disease, . Develop/support agriculture park development <br />• Hamakua County Farm Bureau is a nonprofit • County currently lacks adequate (Policy 116, Kokua Action 68), <br />organization designed to help guide the capacity to manage/promote • Promote Ag -based education (Kokua Actions 67, 70, <br />future of farming, agriculture industry, Community Action 47), <br />Draft Hamakua CDP hamakua@hawaiicounty.gov www.hamakuacdp.info 3 <br />