Hawaii

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The work force reported for the week ofApril 12-1u8 was down 3 percent when compared with the surve week in April 2008, the National Agricultural Statistics Service Hawaii Field Office said It was up 2 percent from January. Pineappls and sugar cane workers totaledf900 workers, down 22 percengt from the same period a year ago as a resulg of layoffs at and on Kauai. Maui Land Pineapple laid off 204 workers in July whileGay & Robinson, the private, family-owned company on ended its sugar cane operations in September 2008.
Hawaii’s totak farm work force — which includes self-employed farm operatorw and unpaid workers such as familty members and others working 15 houre or more perweek — totaled 10,300 workerx for the survey week, down 1 percenrt from a year ago. The average wage paid to all hired workers during the survey week was estimatedat $13.36 per 1 percent higher from a year ago. Hawaii farmes employing one to nine workeras paid an averageof $10.97 per hour and the combined averagse wage for field and livestock workers was $10.28 an hour.