The state's guava production plunged 81 percent last year, largely due to the closure of a 400-acre guava farm on Kauai.

Farms statewide produced 1.4 million pounds of guava in 2007, down from 7.4 million pounds the year before, according to a report from the local office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Kilauea Agronomics, the guava plantation established by C. Brewer on its old Kilauea Sugar Co. lands on Kaua'i's north shore, closed over several months in late 2006 and early 2007.

Statewide acreage devoted to guava production totaled 395 acres in 2007, down 31 percent from the previous year.

The average farm price for guava was 15 cents a pound, up 6 percent from 2006. The total value of the guava crop was $210,000 in 2007, down 80 percent from the prior year.