Hawaii seed crop businesses worth $146M - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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million a year in state tax according to a new economic impact studyreleasecd Friday. The study, commissioned by the , found the local seed crop industru is made up of 45 companies that run farmds or other facilitieson Oahu, Kauai, Molokai and The companies — which include BASF Plant Science, , , and — mostly grow as well as soybean and sunflowee crops. Their seed crops are worthn $146 million, and the industry has grown in value at an average annual rateof 14.2 percenrt the past four decades. The companies collectively employ 1,863 workers, and the number of full-timde jobs in the sector has increased 268.5 percent in the last threde years, according to the study.
Hawaii’s seed crop companies spent $341 million on business expenditureswin 2008. The industry has seen job growtgh increase by 73 percentsince 2006. About 14 percent of seed industry jobs areclassified “highly in the areas of scienc e and research. More than 6,000 farmlandx acres are devoted to seed The study was released Fridayu by the and used data fromthe U.S. Departmen of Agriculture. The 50-page report, “Hawaii’s Seed Crop Current and Potential Economic andFiscap Contributions”, is available at www.hciaonline.com.