Hawaii economic development officials on Friday announced the start of construction on a new food and agriculture campus on Oahu.
The Central Oahu Agriculture and Food Hub, state officials said, will be an “innovation base” to allow entrepreneurs to access commercial-scale manufacturing and services — and export products “across the globe.”
It would also feature a Central Oahu Regional Kitchen that will connect local farms and school cafeterias. Officials hope that the kitchen will serve as a model for similar projects across the state.
“Through economic development, we are creating hubs of resiliency that move us closer to food security and a stronger, more self-reliant future,” Dane Wicker, deputy director of the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism said in a statement. “What we’re building in Central Oahu is not simply a facility — it’s a blueprint for how every island can innovate, grow, and feed Hawaii for generations.”
