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HDOA is announcing that the current funding needs to be spent as it expires on June 1, 2023. Please do all your organization can to get your coffee farmers to get their applications in. If you need outreach materials or Melanie Bondera to attend a meeting or event, please let us know. Please send out the following in your next email or newsletter and every month until June 1.
COFFEE FARMERS: LAST CHANCE to take advantage of the HDOA CBB-CLR Pesticide Subsidy to get 50% back on your receipts for sprays. First come, first serve as the funding lasts, but you must have completed your application by June 1, 2023. Yes! We are reimbursing Coffee Leaf Rust spray products on our approved list!! We are reimbursing receipts from July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022 for approved CBB & CLR sprays. Start your application here and we’ll help you complete it as your prefer: online, by email, by snailmail, or in person. If you’ve never used the program before, we will also request your GET#, FEIN#/SS#, and drivers license. Please contact Melanie Bondera at hdoa.cbb@hawaii.gov or 808-323-7578 with questions. Coffee Farmers are all seeing the yield and profit loss in the current harvest from last year’s bad round of CLR. Please take advantage of this last round of the Subsidy to help ease farm finances.
-Melanie
Melanie Bondera
CBB-CLR Subsidy Program
Hawaii Department of Agriculture
Phone: 808-323-7578
Mailing address:-P.O. Box 226-Captain Cook, HI 96704
Physical address:-82-6130 Mamalahoa Hwy, Room # 7-Captain Cook, HI 96704