Its a direct consequence of the leasehold system. If you aren’t familiar with Hawaiian land ownership or Hawaiian agriculture, I doubt you have much experience with it.
A landlord wants to extract more rents, the farmer who knows what their margins support say no can.
If the farmer owned the land, this wouldn’t be an issue. Its not a brand/ trademark issue. Its a structural issue related to land tenure and land ownership in a state where a 5000 square foot lot goes for 300k+ minimum and where five corporations effectively control 90%+ of private land.
Agriculture can’t support the kind of rents modern capital expects to collect.
I’m not disputing what you said. Just pointing out the parts of the article that lead me to my conclusion. The Landlord seems to not want to sell off parcels of this land according to their own statement, but to continue coffee operations. What you said makes sense (as far as extracting more rents), but so does trying to buy the rights to the Kauai Coffee Company name to continue their operations because of brand recognition.
You are correct in that I don’t know much of anything about the lease hold system for such lands in Hawaii.
Yes. And the farmer didn’t offer comment so we only get the land lords perspective. I’m heading over there next month. I’ll probably head over and ask around as to what the community thinks.
Its a direct consequence of the leasehold system. If you aren’t familiar with Hawaiian land ownership or Hawaiian agriculture, I doubt you have much experience with it.
A landlord wants to extract more rents, the farmer who knows what their margins support say no can.
If the farmer owned the land, this wouldn’t be an issue. Its not a brand/ trademark issue. Its a structural issue related to land tenure and land ownership in a state where a 5000 square foot lot goes for 300k+ minimum and where five corporations effectively control 90%+ of private land.
Agriculture can’t support the kind of rents modern capital expects to collect.
I’m not disputing what you said. Just pointing out the parts of the article that lead me to my conclusion. The Landlord seems to not want to sell off parcels of this land according to their own statement, but to continue coffee operations. What you said makes sense (as far as extracting more rents), but so does trying to buy the rights to the Kauai Coffee Company name to continue their operations because of brand recognition.
You are correct in that I don’t know much of anything about the lease hold system for such lands in Hawaii.
Yes. And the farmer didn’t offer comment so we only get the land lords perspective. I’m heading over there next month. I’ll probably head over and ask around as to what the community thinks.