The value of Hawaii's vegetable and melon crop totaled $36.9 million in 2007, down 7 percent from the year before, according to a new report from the local office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.

By weight, production for the 22 selected vegetables totaled 70.4 million pounds, up 1 percent from 2006, according to the report. The top five crops by weight were unchanged from a year earlier: tomatoes, 14.3 million pounds (down 3 percent); watermelon, 13.1 million pounds (up 26 percent); head cabbage, 10.4 million pounds (up 3 percent); Chinese cabbage, 6.3 million pounds (up 3.3 percent); and sweet potatoes, 5.3 million pounds (down 12 percent).