By Timothy Hurley
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 01, 2015
In a couple of weeks Hawaii's only sugar grower begins its 143th harvest season on Maui, the last plantation holdout from bygone days when sugar was king in the islands.
But the venerable Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. likely will do so facing greater scrutiny as the Environmental Protection Agency conducts an investigation and emboldened Maui activists take aim at sugar cane burning following an improbable election victory over the corporate growers of genetically engineered crops.
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In a couple of weeks Hawaii's only sugar grower begins its
143th harvest season on Maui, the last plantation holdout from bygone days when
sugar was king in the islands.
But the venerable Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. likely
will do so facing greater scrutiny as the Environmental Protection Agency
conducts an investigation and emboldened Maui activists take aim at sugar cane
burning following an improbable election victory over the corporate growers of
genetically engineered crops.
