Updated at 4:18 p.m., Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Local 2007 sugar cane production up 6% to 1.78M tons
Advertiser Staff
Hawai'i's sugar cane production for 2007 is forecast at 1.78 million tons, up 6 percent from $1.68 million tons in 2006.Sugar cane growers in the state plan to harvest 22,500 acres this year, up slightly from 22,400 acres last year, according to the local field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Yield is forecast at 79 tons per acre, up from 75 tons per acre in 2006.
Hawai'i's yield per acre is more than double that of the other three sugar-producing states, Florida, Texas and Louisiana. Florida is second to Hawai'i in yield with a forecast of 36.9 tons per acre in 2007.
Total U.S. sugar cane production for 2007 is forecast at 30.4 million tons, up 2.7 percent from $29.6 million tons in 2006.
