Hawai'i farmers last year produced less avocado, banana, grapefruit, guava, lemon and lime compared with a year earlier. But more papaya, tangerine and specialty tropical fruits such as lychee, rambutan and atemoya helped boost the state's total fruit crop, excluding pineapple.

The Hawai'i Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service's annual fruit crop survey showed 60.9 million pounds of fruit was harvested last year, up 3 percent from 2006. Total fruit crop value rose 7 percent to $27.9 million.

The agency, in a departure from past surveys, excluded pineapple from the report so as not to disclose information from a single producer, Maui Land & Pineapple Co., following the 2006 shutdown of Del Monte Fresh Produce operations in Hawai'i.

Production and value of sales last year over the prior year for the other fruit crops were:

Avocado — 840,000 pounds valued at $571,000, down from 880,000 pounds and $598,000.

Banana — 19.7 million pounds valued at $8.1 million, down from 20 million pounds and $9.8 million.

Grapefruit — 30,000 pounds valued at $19,000, down from 50,000 pounds valued at $34,000.

Guava — 3.8 million pounds valued at $597,000, down from 7.4 million pounds valued at $1.1 million.

Lemon — 33,000 pounds valued at $30,000, down from 45,000 pounds valued at $36,000.

Lime — 69,000 pounds valued at $66,000, down from 121,000 pounds valued at $105,000.

Papaya — 33.4 million pounds valued at $13.1 million, up from 28.7 million pounds valued at $11 million.

Tangerine — 89,000 pounds valued at $70,000, up from 85,000 pounds valued at $48,000.

Tropical specialty fruit — 2.3 million pounds valued at $4.5 million, up from 1.4 million pounds valued at $2.6 million pounds.