Hawaii develops tea as one specialty commodity

摘要

Tpea is one of the new products that farmers in Hawaii looks to plant and produce.The farmers are interested to grow more specialty products that command premium prices. The University of Hawaii is developing a signature tea that Hawaii can market the way it markets its speciality coffees, according to Andrew Hashimoto, Dean of the UH School of Tropical Agriculture. "It's already growing in our experimental station," he said. "We want something that is unique to Hawaii. Something comparable to Kona coffee that cannot be duplicated elsewhere."