Do you agree with the following vision element?
"Promote a Diversified Agricultural Industry"
View the 2011 NSSCP description of this vision element below:
A healthy agricultural industry continues to generate economic opportunities that are appropriate to the region’s open space and rural qualities. In addition to using the Community Growth Boundary to ensure long-range protection for agricultural lands, land use policies and guidelines are in place to protect agricultural lands from encroachment by incompatible uses and to encourage long-term investments in productive agricultural uses on those lands. Economic incentives to support the industry, including tax or other incentives or measures to maintain productive agricultural lands, facilitate conversion from plantation crops to diversified agriculture, and promote long-term leases or sale of lands for farming, have been enhanced and strengthened.
Industrial and commercial activities which support or service agricultural production are creating further economic opportunities. To promote the cost-efficient use of existing infrastructure and prevent urbanization of agricultural lands, major agricultural support facilities have been consolidated in designated areas that are accessible to existing infrastructure. In addition, visitor-based activities that are accessory to agricultural operations are providing additional revenue-generating sources to supplement farm incomes.
Agricultural support facilities at the former Waialua Mill site have been expanded into the area makai of the Mill, and the area is the primary agricultural support area for the region. A secondary agricultural support area in Kawailoa near the Alluvion Nursery provides localized support for adjacent agricultural activities based in Kawailoa.