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health insurance costs and everything
else have been going up," he said.
It just wasn't profitable. Eventually,
closing was the only option for HC&S.
Today, the company controls a piece of
land twice the size of Manhattan. Now the
question becomes, how the land will be used?
The future will be agriculture but it will
be a patchwork quilt of crops instead of a
solid blanket of sugar, said Benjamin, who
explained that a comprehensive process to
evaluate a range of uses is already underway.
In Hawaii, like other places, sugar was
attractive because it could be grown and
shipped as nearly a finished product. That
kind of crop is hard to replace, which should
serve as a wakeup call for HC&S's colleagues
on the mainland still fighting policy battles.
"I think, in general, the country must be
mindful of the fact that we can't assume that
land that falls out of sugar production is
going to be easily repurposed to other types
of agriculture," he warned. "And I think we
are going to end up having significant tracks
of fallow land if we don't support America's
efficient sugar industry going forward." n
Editor's note: Contact Phillip at
phillip@sugaralliance.org.
