#State Department of Agriculture

Live Gopher Snake Found at Home Depot on O’ahu

Employees of an O‘ahu home improvement store got a slithery surprise from a pallet hitchhiker earlier this week.

State DOA Panel to Consider Importing ‘Incompatible Male’ Mosquitoes to Help Control Wild Populations

The Plant and Animal Advisory Committee of the state Department of Agriculture is looking at importing “incompatible male” mosquitoes as a method of mosquito population control in the islands to help save several native honeycreeper species.

Smart Yields to Enhance Food Safety Under New Grant Partnerships

Smart Yields will use the $42,000 grant in a new initiative to develop enhanced food-safety solutions for Hawai‘i farms.