Island harvest will increase the packaging efficiency and capacity of hawaiis organic producers of macadamia nuts and other organic agricultural products in hawaii

This project will allow for island harvest to offer comanufacturing services to other organic producers. The main goal of the project is to purchase and install an automated packaging system with the capacity to pack up to 1800 pouches of organic macadamia nuts per hour. Currently there are limited and inefficient 18 options for organic producers to package their products and the installation of packaging equipment will help to alleviate this bottleneck and allow for the growth of the market for organic agricultural products. The increased capacity of packaging will allow hawaiis organic producers to compete with nonorganic consumer packaged goods in online and instore outlets throughout hawaii and the united states. This will improve the availability of organic products to consumers and reduce the cost for hawaiis organic producers to bring their product to market.