date:Jul 31, 2015
urism, sugars importance faded, and the railroad that once carried cane along Mauis west coast is now little more than a curiosity for visitors, including the trade ministers gathered at a beach resort nearby.
Hawaii produced more than a million tons of sugar a year in the 1960s, but output has since fallen to a fifth of those levels, said Ryan Weston, Washington representative for Texas and Hawaii sugar cane growers. Sugar supports more than a thousand jobs on Maui, and burning sugar cane adds