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Big Island Welcomes Funding to Fight Coffee Berry Borer

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  Each year, farmers across Hawaii Island grow coffee on more than six thousand acres, around the island.  Statewide, Hawaii produces more than 8 million pounds of coffee a year, a crop worth more than $30 million dollars.  One of the industry's biggest challenges remains the same as a year ago:  the coffee berry borer.  From the Big Island, HPR's Sherry Bracken has an update on how the fight is going.

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