It was in 1996 when HSPA expanded its research interest besides sugarcane and acquired its current name Hawaii Agriculture Research Center (HARC), expanding its research on tropical agriculture and Hawaiian native forestry programs.
<Bob Osgood, HARC Emeritus Agronomist Showing one of the many coffee varieties available at the coffee breeding collection in HARC Maunawili Breeding Station
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In 2008, HARC's Experiment Station laboratories and administrative offices relocated from the Robert L. Cushing Building in Aiea, Hawai'i to Kunia, Hawai'i. The modern laboratories are equipped with state of the art instrumentation and equipment to meet the needs of its staff of agronomists, weed scientists, pathologists, physiologists, molecular biologists, horticulturists, plant breeders, and conservationists.
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Records
An excellent technical library located in HARC Headquarters building host corporate records, correspondences, cultivation contracts, financial records, personnel and payroll records, production records, and miscellaneous records in some cases going back to 1850 and in varying degrees of completeness for numerous plantations were donated to the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, which created the HSPA Plantation Archives.
For more information about HARC history visit our digital archives
For more information on the history of sugarcane in Hawai'i read Lawrence Kessler dissertation