KAPOHO, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A Big Island farmer is devastated by the destruction of thousands of his papaya trees at the hands of vandals. Laureto Julian says his farm has been in his family ...

In late June of last year, machete-armed vandals destroyed 8,500 papaya trees at a 17-acre farm in the Kapoho area of the island. Two months previous to that, someone chopped down nearly 400 of ...

Rainbow papaya makes up about 77 percent of the crop now, with some farmers still growing the non-transgenic Kapoho Solo to export to markets, like Japan, that are slow to embrace modified food.

Her Kapoho Kai nursery was destroyed by the 2018 ... Almost 14 square miles of Lower Puna was covered by lava, wiping out producers of papaya, ornamental flowers, nursery plants, macadamia nuts ...

The couple grows lychee, bananas and papaya on their farm in Kapoho. When they evacuated, they missed shipments of produce to other parts of the state. And with that came lost income.

But the papaya industry insisted that their product maintain its traditional yellow flesh, so Manshardt crossed SunUp with the original PRV-vulnerable "Kapoho" strain. Thus, the yellow hybrid Rainbow ...

Kapoho and SunUp are parental cultivars of the hybrid Rainbow that accounts for majority of the papaya fruit produced in Hawaii. Kapoho is a popular commercial cultivar that is pear-shaped with a ...

KAILUA-KONA — Lava, fed by Fissure 8 on the lower East Rift Zone, continues to fill Kapoho Bay ... is open to Waa Waa and Papaya Farms Road with access to residents only with official credentials.

By Tuesday morning, the lava had completely filled Kapoho Bay – shocking residents and frequent visitors who realized that their beloved bay was gone. It was where vacationers enjoyed tide pools ...