Embattled Agribusiness Corporation Has Powerful Friends…Lawmakers plan to vote next week on a measure to dissolve the Agribusiness Development Corp.
With the future of a state agency in charge of transforming Hawaii’s old plantation lands into working farms in the balance, battle lines formed Friday between Gov. David Ige’s administration and big agricultural organizations on one side and lawmakers who say the agency has failed in its mission and should be dissolved on the other.
