EDITORIAL: New opportunities for Hawaiian Islands’ farmers

EDITORIAL: New opportunities for Hawaiian Islands’ farmers

The thrust of President Trump’s tariff policy is to make American goods more price-competitive, thereby creating the conditions for more domestic manufacture, rather than reliance on U.S. imports. Hawaii has not been a hub of American-made products in most categories, but there is one that could benefit from an environment of some higher prices. That would be agriculture. Hawaii has a year-round growing season, but export potential has been limi…