Staff from the Gene-ius Day program attended the 2018 Hawaii P-20 Middle School Career Industry Fair held on February 15 at the Hawaii Convention Center, introducing students to exciting career pathways in agriculture.

Extension Agent Sharon Motomura and CTAHR are collaborators in an international project to identify and breed new varieties of cassava for smallholder farmers in Africa.

CTAHR was out in force at the recent Ag Day at the Capitol, which gave legislators a glimpse of the many important impacts agriculture has in the Islands.

Nolan Johnson, a new agricultural research technician at Mealani Research Station and master’s candidate in Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences with an emphasis on irrigation management, has a background in golf course mangement and civil engineering.

On Friday. February 23, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Richard Criley (TPSS) will present a seminar entitled “Alpinia to Zingiber—the Commercial Zingiberales” in St. John 011. Faculty, researchers, and students are all welcome.