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Posted on January 11, 2010 by Genevive
Five former Maui Land & Pine (MLP) employees, headed up by Ulupalakua Ranch’s Pardee Erdman, formed a new company called Haliimaile Pineapple Co, and bought the soon-to-be defunct fields owned by MLP located in central Upcountry Maui. Darren Strand is HPC’s new president and CEO.
Maui Gold pineapple, a low acid variety, to be grown and sold by Haliimaile Pineapple Co
The new company has begun to harvest fields of “Maui Gold” brand fruit, a low acid variety, around Haiku that were ripening, but going neglected. They are also replanting the fields located behind Haliimaile General Store that were targets for land sale and redevelopment into a new subdivision. According to the blog site Hawaii Agriculture the leadership of the new company “brings over 150 years of combined expertise in growing and packing premium pineapple on Maui.”
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle issued a statement on the new company’s plans December 31, 2009. She says, “I can’t think of a better way to ring in the new year than with preservation of 65 agricultural jobs and the prospect of creating more jobs for our residents in the long-term.” Jobs are important, but so is the preservation of green space.
HPC has purchased and licensed key assets, and leased farm land, equipment and buildings from ML&P with plans to serve the Hawaii pineapple market. According to Haliimaile General Store manager Tim McGraw, if locals and visitors buy one Maui Gold pineapple a week, HPC has a real shot at becoming a viable, profitable company.
A pineapple a day keeps the subdivisions away « 3-Minute Vacation
Fifty years after statehood, most of the plantations have gone fallow or become "gentleman’s estates." There are 6,500 "farmers" in Hawai’i, but only half are full time. The average farmer is 59, with an annual income of $10,000.
Ignoring the need for food security, we import at least 85 percent of our food and send billions to faraway agribusinesses when we could keep the money here to strengthen our self-sufficiency, enrich our economy and employ our jobless.
We were once a world leader in agricultural production. Now farmers have overwhelming challenges in land, water, infrastructure, pests, NIMBY, encroachment, transportation costs and burdensome bureaucracy, not to mention cheap foreign competition.
Can agriculture survive in Hawai’i?
WAILUKU – Maui Land & Pineapple Co. sold its pineapple operation to the new Haliimaile Pineapple Co. for less than a third of its value, according to a report by ML&P.
In the filing dated Dec. 31, ML&P disclosed that it sold Haliimaile Pine its equipment, materials, supplies and customer lists valued at about $3 million for a price tag of $680,000, to be paid over five years.
The agreement, signed New Year’s Eve between the two companies, also granted Haliimaile Pine the exclusive rights to use Maui Pineapple Co. logos and trade names for a license fee based on sales volumes that would be around $20,000 to $30,000 each year.
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Maui Land and Pineapple (MLP) 01-08-2010
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Alexander and Baldwin (ALEX) 01-08-2010
Monsanto (MON) 01-08-2010
Syngenta (SYT) 01-08-2010
DUPONT E I DE NEM (DD) 01-08-2010
