Hawaii’s last sugar harvest paves the way for a fight over the land’s future | US news | The Guardian
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Kaniela Ing, a Democratic state representative for Maui who chairs the office of Hawaiian affairs, might be expected to have sympathy for the 650 people losing their jobs at the end of this year, but he is focused on Maui’s future agricultural economy, which he thinks should include hemp. “We don’t want one mono-crop like sugar to be replaced by another like GMO corn. In reality we want diverse agriculture that is organic, rotational and can replenish the soil, and hemp is a good part of that solution.”