Fire damages 40 acres of sugar cane: "WAIKAPU – An unscheduled fire Thursday night burned about 40 acres of sugar cane in a field along Kuihelani Highway near the Dunes at Maui Lani golf course, officials said.
Kahului Airport tower personnel contacted Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. at 6:45 p.m. with information that field 718 was on fire, according to HC&S harvesting Superintendent Mark Lopes."
This is one of the two plantations providing Hawaiian raw to C & H. It will be interesting to see the impact in Crockett.
"Processing unripened cane produces far less sugar for the same handling expense. Although plantation workers planned to salvage the cane, the premature harvest reduces the quality of the raw sugar, Howe said.
“The impact includes the danger to the community presented by arsons such as this and the disruption to HC&S’ carefully coordinated two-year-long schedule of planting, cultivating, ripening and harvesting the dozens of fields that cross the plantation,” she said.
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