Over 130 years of history...Founded in 1895, the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association (HSPA), dedicated to improving the sugar industry in Hawaiʻi, has become an internationally recognized research center.
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It was in 1996 when HSPA expanded its research interest besides sugarcane and acquired its current name Hawaiʻi Agriculture Research Center (HARC), expanding its research on tropical agricultural crops and native Hawaiian forestry programs.
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Standing now as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, HARC's research and education interest encompasses forestry, coffee, cacao, forages, vegetable crops, tropical fruits, and other diversified crops.
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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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Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association
Historic Records
An excellent technical library located in the HARC Headquarters building hosts 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 about HARC history visit our digital archives
For more information on the history of sugarcane in Hawai'i read Lawrence Kessler dissertation
