The Hawai`i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is currently reviewing requests for assistance under the COVID-19 Emergency Farmer Relief Program which offers some financial assistance to qualified farmers, ranchers and producers who have experienced damage to their operations due to COVID-19.

Hawai`i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) officials say they will try to "maintain as many critical services as possible during the State’s response to the COVID-19 emergency."

Farm technology, including drones and accounting software, are in high demand among Hawaiʻi Farmers. 

A live non-venomous ball python is being safeguarded by the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture in Hilo after it was reportedly run over by a vehicle Thursday night on a side road near Old Airport Road.

The Hawai’i Department of Agriculture confirmed a second infestation of little fire ants in a neighborhood in ʻĀhuimanu after a resident reported stinging ants. The department conducted surveys of the area and a nearby home of a relative and detected two infestation sites around ʻĀhuimanu Road. The main site involves 13 properties and the other... Read more »

Little Fire Ants have been confirmed in a second Windward Oʻahu neighborhood. The two sites in Ahuimanu total about three acres.

State grants are available for Hawaiʻi farmers and ranchers to help bring their operations in compliance with state and federal food safety regulations.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture is hosting a free Specialty Crop Block Grant Program workshop at the HDOA Maui Conference Room (635 Mua St.) on Jan. 16. from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture (HDOA) announced the selection of Kevin Michael Hoffman, Ph.D. as the administrator for the Plant Industry Division.

On Maui, several small populations have been removed and the team is working with the Maui Invasive Species Committee to design a strategy that will hopefully eradicate a large infestation in Nāhiku.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture has issued the first licenses to growers under the State’s Industrial Hemp Pilot Program.

A live ball python snake was captured over the weekend in Hilo on the road next to the South Hilo Sanitary Landfill by county workers.

The Hawai‘i Farm to School Program is looking to grow with help from lawmakers. Find out how it's bringing local agriculture into the classroom and cafeteria.

In the first year of its 10-year plan to strengthen biosecurity, the State of Hawai‘i reports it took dozens of steps to better control invasive species.

A community meeting is slated for tonight in East Maui where one of two new infestations of little fire ants were discovered last month.