Department of Agriculture . A brief history of Hawaii can be found here. We have worked to include what we could find, but we are always looking for more suggestions. Please contact Jim Hollyer with suggestions.
Other Hawaii Agricultural Histories. History of Sugar. Hawaii was one of the last island groups to be settled. Archaeological evidence indicates the first Polynesians arrived in Hawaii from the Marquesas between 5.
AD.” (From a. They also bring “`Ape (elephant’s ear), `Awa (kawa), `Awapuhi Kuahiwi (shampoo ginger), Hau Ipu (gourd), Kalo (taro), Kamani (Alexandrian laurel), Ki (ti), Ko (sugar cane), Kou, Kukui (candlenut), Mai`a (banana), Milo (portia tree), Niu (coconut), Noni (Indian mulberry), `Ohe (bamboo), `Ohi`a `Ai (mountain apple), `Olena (turmeric), Olona, Pia (Polynesian arrowroot), `Uala (sweet potato), Uhi (yam), `Ulu (breadfruit), Wauke (paper mulberry)” with them. Captain Cook observes local chickens on Kauai. Sandalwood export trade starts. The orange brought to Hawaii.
The first cattle, originating from California, were introduced by Capt. George Vancouver on his second trip in 1. On this trip and again in 1. Hawai’i. One male and one female died shortly after landing. After the initial importation, King Kamehameha I placed a taboo on the slaughter of cattle, so that by 1. The Parker Ranch had its beginnings in 1.
John Palmer Parker, a sailor from Massachusetts arrived on the islands. He married a Hawaiian princess and began domesticating wild cattle and horses that roamed the Big Island. Height of sandalwood trade. Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, Spanish advisor to King Kamehameha I, introduces coffee and pineapple to Hawaii.
John Wilkinson brings 3. Hawaiian coffee” plants from Brazil.
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This is believed to be the first introduction of this coffee type that was widely planted in Hawaii. The mango tree brought to Hawaii. H. N. Greenwell plants first coffee plant in Kona leading to the establishment of a coffee industry for Kona. King Kamehameha I’s kapu on slaughter of cattle removed due to large population. Coffee initiated as a commercial crop. First forestry law in Hawaii passed, restricting the cutting of sandalwood. Captain Thomas Cummins, a wealthy shipping merchant from England, began raising beef cattle and sheep in Waimanalo.
King Kamehameha III passes a law declaring forests to be government property. The feudal landholding system was changed to allow fee simple ownership of land by private persons (Great Mahele).
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California gold rush brings a boom to Hawaii agriculture; Irish and sweet potatoes, onions, pumpkins, oranges, molasses, and coffee were shipped to the West Coast. First publication of Transactions of the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society. Hogs from Hawaii exported to California during gold rush, price was 4- 6 cents per pound. The Lihue sugar plantation on Kauai develops the first extensive irrigation system in Hawaii, which included a 1.
First experimentation with rice, which was an important crop in Hawaii in the latter half of the 1. Drought, a variety of infestations, and labor shortages hinders coffee growth leading to the closures of nearly all plantations in the islands, except for Kona and Hamakua. The U. S. Department of Agriculture is established by President Abraham Lincoln. Claus Spreckels and his brother established the Bay Sugar Refinery in San Francisco, getting their raw sugar from the Hawaiian Islands. First Japanese workers come to Hawaii. First recorded commercial dairy. First plantings of Eucalyptus on Maui.
Water crisis in Honolulu. A reciprocity treaty between the Kingdom and the United States allowed for duty- free export of sugar, leading to a rapid expansion in sugarcane production. Act for the Protection and Preservation of Woods and Forests”, including watershed preservation, passed by Kingdom of Hawaii. The Waimanalo Sugar Company is founded.
Rail tracks are laid out and three locomotive engines are brought in to haul cane to the mill and the wharf. Future Queen Liliuokalani composes “Aloha Oe”. The melody was inspired during a visit to the Waimanalo sugar plantation. Plantings of Eucalyptus and ironwoods on Tantalus and in Nuuanu valley, above Honolulu. William H. Purvis introduces macadamia nuts to Hawaii. John Ackerman and Waldemar Muller canned pineapple commercially in Kona.
Captain John Kidwell is credited as being the pioneer of the pineapple industry in Hawaii. He began crop development trials in 1. Manoa, Oahu. 1. 88. The first artesian well was drilled in Ewa, Oahu, ushering in groundwater irrigation of agricultural fields. Captain John Kidwell plants Smooth Cayenne pineapple near Pearl Harbor.
Sold plants to Baldwin on Maui. Strong economies in Europe and America results in rise of market prices for coffee creating a boom for Kona coffee. Hermann Widemann introduces a Guatemalan coffee variety that is more recently referred to as the “Kona typica.”1. Kidwell and John Emmeluth build pineapple cannery in Waipahu. Hawaii Sugar Planters Association (HSPA) founded. Alfred W. Eames arrives in Hawaii as one of the original “California Homesteaders” to begin pineapple cultivation.
Eames first starts selling fresh pineapple in the year 1. His company eventually became Del Monte Fresh Produce (Hawaii) Inc. Japanese coffee farmers establish the Kona Japanese Coffee Producers Association in an effort to improve processing and market a higher value product. Kunigoro Yokoyama plants 1. Guatemalan coffee variety in Kamalumalu, Kona. James Drummond Dole purchases 6. Wahiawa and began experimenting with pineapple.
James Drummond Dole incorporates the Hawaiian Pineapple Company and begins growing fruit on 6. Wahiawa. 1. 90. 1Hawaii Agricultural Research Station (UH) established on outskirts of Honolulu.
Byron Clark founds Tropical Fruit Company (for pineapple). Commercial egg production starts on Oahu with 1. Territory of Hawaii, with the backing of the Hawaii Sugar Planters’ Association, establishes a Board of Agriculture and Forestry, predating the USDA Forest Service by one year. Hiring of first Territorial Forester (Ralph Hosmer); creation of first forest reserves to protect upper watershed areas.
Forest reserves managed by fencing, feral animal elimination, and reforestation with native and exotic tree species. Dole packs 1. 25,0. Hawaiian Pineapple Co. Name changes to College of Hawaii in 1. University of Hawaii in 1. Rice planting expands to 9,4.
Hawaii. 1. 90. 9Japanese laborers strike against Oahu sugar plantations. Pineapple research carried on by pineapple companies and University of Hawaii. Japanese coffee farmers make- up 8.
Kona. 1. 91. 0Discovery of Mediterranean fruit fly stops exports of avocado and other products from Hawaii. Ginaca machine patented by Dole employee Henry Ginaca to process pineapple. Introduction of the Solo papaya from Barbados and Jamaica, on Oct. Wilder (of Honolulu) resulted in the complete transformation of the Hawaiian papaya industry. This small papaya, which was named Solo in 1. Solo was the only variety grown commercially.
Hawaiian Pineapple Packers’ Association research station formed which became the Pineapple Research Institute. Pineapple Packers Association establishes alliance with HSPA for research. University starts an extension service without federal funding (see 1. Hawaiian Homes Act established. Federal government set aside 2. Hawaiians with 5.
Author of the bill was Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole, Hawaii delegate to Congress. First homestead area settled was in Kalamaula on Molokai. Agricultural lots were established in Hoolehua, Molokai. Pineapple Packers Association establishes own experiment station. Labor riots at Hanapepe kill 1. July). 1. 92. 5Ernest Van Tassel leases 7.
Round Top in Honolulu (Nut Ridge) and begins a macadamia nut orchard, Hawaii’s first macadamia nut farm. Establishment of the Federal- Hawaii Cooperative Agricultural Extension Service, with funds from the Smith- Lever Act. Depression leads to coffee bust; many debt- ridden coffee farmers declare bankruptcy. Ernest Van Tassel negotiates with Bishop Estate to obtain 1. Keahoe Mauka for planting more than 7. Hawaii. 1. 93. 01. Nine million cases of pineapple packed by eight canneries.
Ernest Van Tassel establishes a macadamia nut processing factory on Puhukaina Street in Kakaako; nuts sold as Van’s macadamia nuts. Twenty- five percent of the area of Hawaii in established Forest Reserves, both public and private lands.
Sugar production peaks with 2. Civilian Conservation Corps reforestation efforts plant an average of two million trees per year in the forest reserves. W. W. Beaumont reports in “Science,” the first successful grafting of macadamia nuts that paved the way for mass production.
Debt ridden coffee farmers negotiate with American Factors (AMFAC) for an adjustment. Coffee farmers get a chance at a new start with American Factors reducing debts to 2% of original debts. Pineapple Packers Association experiment station name changed to Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii (PRI). Hawaii swine population peaks at 9.
Filipino workers immigrated to Hawaii for jobs in sugar and pineapple. Great Sugar Strike” – 3.
ILWU workers (September 1). Hawaiian Pineapple Company consolidates its outlying camps by designing plans for Whitmore Village.
Newly organized unionized pineapple workers conducts their first labors strike. Oahu farmers meet in October for the first time leading to the creation of the Hawaii Farm Bureau that was incorporated in December 1. First major all- island study of the characteristics of vegetable and fruit farms undertaken.
Territorial legislature creates Industrial Research Advisory Council to sponsor and finance studies, many have been in the area of diversified agriculture. Castle and Cooke plants first grafted macadamia nut trees (January 3). By the early 5. 0s, the company’s orchard contained more than 3,0. Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation officially starts. Frozen pineapple juice concentrate hits the shelves for the first time. The territory establishes its first public- owned irrigation system in Waimanalo.