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 ...

A Puna farmer now says he lost 13,000 papaya trees valued at more than $120,000 ... the late hours of June 29 on 17 acres he leases in Kapoho. He estimated the loss initially at $100,000.

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.

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.

the Pahoa-Kapoho Road, with two flow fronts. Government Beach Road, between Kahakai Boulevard and Cinder Road, is open to Waa Waa and Papaya Farms Road residents only, but they must have ...

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 ...

Of the two main Hawaiian varieties, the yellow-fleshed, or Kapoho, papaya tends to be heftier and bulbous; generally the larger-size fruit (more than 5 inches long) is of better quality.

The Rainbow papaya variant is a crossbreed between the unmodified Kapoho and the SunUp papaya, which was created in part by Cornell University researcher Dennis Gonsalves. The SunUp is resistant ...