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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo. But the constant repetition of bending down to plant, weed and set up irrigation and looking up to prune trees and harvest fruit became taxing, she says. Kaʻinapu Cavasso agrees.