Hawaii Agriculture Research Center

Job opening for full time agronomist at HARC.

Have you seen Coffee Leaf Rust while out hiking?

The feral coffee trees growing wild in the Makiki/Manoa hiking area are heavily infected with coffee leaf rust (CLR). 80-90% of the leaves are infected. If you go hiking in that area, please make sure to disinfect your clothes, shoes, hats, backpack, water jugs, etc. before leaving the area. WE all can help slow the spread of this fungus which is devastating the coffee crops in Hawaii.

To learn more:https://www.hawaiicoffeeed.com/uploads/2/6/7/7/26772370/clr_poster_combo_012021_.pdf

We recently were able to help Kailua Intermediate School 7th graders with a project where they learned about koa and then proceeded to actually germinate koa seedlings. With the donation of seed the students were able to try different methods of scarifying the seed and now they have little keiki koa to take care of until they're big enough to be outplanted with the help of DLNR

It’s not all hard work going on in the fields, sometimes there’s a little play too

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New info posted on the 2020 Seeds4Tomorrow Summer camp

Seeds 4 Tomorrow Seeds4Tomorrow summer program is for high school students interested in the diverse world of agriculture- from biologists to engineers to culinary arts!

Check out seeds 2019!

Hawaiian Blue Mountain, SL28, Pink Bourbon, Margogipe, Robusta, Mokka, San Ramon, Pacas... These are just a few of the exotic cultivars of coffee being researched and developed by HARC (Hawaii Agricultural Research Center) on .
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Besides breeding , they also work with bees (coffee flower honey = 😍), disease resistant , cacao, heirloom sugar cane, and locally produced animal feed.
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