The state's 2007 guava production did not fall by as much as originally reported, according to revised figures released by the local office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Guava production totaled 3.8 million pounds last year, down 49 percent from 2006, the NASS reported. The office originally had reported guava production fell 81 percent to 1.4 million pounds between 2006 and 2007.

Officials as the NASS office in Honolulu blamed the miscalculation on "an internal computer glitch."

The decline in guava production was largely due to the closure of Kilauea Agronomics guava plantation on former sugar cane lands on Kaua'i's north shore. The plantation was suffering financial losses due to cheaper, imported guava.

Statewide acreage devoted to guava production totaled 465 acres in 2007, down 19 percent from the previous year.

The average farm price for guava was 15.7 cents a pound, up 11 percent from 2006. The total value of the guava crop was $597,000 in 2007, down 43 percent from the prior year.