Haliimaile Pineapple Co. employees work to process fresh pineapples Thursday at the company’s renovated Haliimaile plant. The company closed a former Maui Pineapple Co. processing plant in Kahului and moved to Haliimaile to centralize plantings and packing there, said Vice President Rudy Balala. He said the weather has been “nice but kind of dry,” but replanting is on schedule. Haliimaile Pineapple took over about 1,000 acres when Maui Pineapple shut down at the end of the year. The new company handles about 75 tons of fruit per day, but most of it stays in Hawaii, with about 20 percent sold to customers on the Mainland, Balala said.
This is the sweetest, best tasting, Pineapple in the world.
Grown on Maui by Hali'imaile Pineapple Co.
Please buy this product!!! PRIDE IN ISLAND!!! I am very proud to be a part of the group that is working to maintain pineapple as a part of our economy and our community.
Our goal at Haliimaile Pineapple Co. is to perpetuate pineapple production and grow a new industry here on Maui. We can only this if there is a reliable water source for us to utilize in our business.
Haliimaile, and the entire Upcountry region, depends upon water delivered by East Maui Irrigation through its extensive ditch system. Without that water, Haliimaile Pineapple Co. and, for that matter, all agricultural enterprises Upcountry would be in jeopardy.
I certainly hope that the state water commission understands that in making its determination to take water from the ditch system in order to provide more water to the streams.
