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The College of Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resource Management offers facilities for students conducive to create comfortable and quality learning environment. The two-story agriculture building located on the main campus provides classroom and laboratories for courses in horticulture, animal science, entomology, plant pathology, plant physiology, tissue culture, soil science, agronomy, aquaculture, crop protection, and agribusiness. A computer laboratory is available for student independent use between classes. Students can also utilize the laboratories and campus greenhouses for special projects in directed research courses.
A unique feature of the college is the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Agricultural Farm Laboratory. On 110 acres of land, students can experience practical learning in various enterprises such as anthuriums, ornamental foliage, hydroponics, floriculture plants, orchids, forestry, vegetables, sustainable agriculture, livestock production, equine science, beekeeping, tropical fruit and aquaculture. Because direct application of newly gained knowledge is an integral part of the college’s educational goals, many laboratories and courses are based on the farm.
The Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center (PACRC) is now being developed at two sites on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi: a 12.5-acre coastal site at Keaukaha, adjacent to the Hilo port, and an inland site located at the UH Hilo Agricultural Farm Laboratory. At Keaukaha, an old wastewater treatment plant is being converted into the physical core of the Center. The major components of the Keaukaha facility will be a water quality laboratory, greenhouse-like structures which will contain tanks, internal roads and parking lot, wells, and a few offices. The initial focus at Keaukaha will be ornamental fish culture and the cultivation of pearl oysters. At the UHH Agricultural Farm Laboratory, a pathology laboratory, quarantine facilities, a freshwater fish hatchery and several ponds will be constructed. The primary purpose of the Farm Lab site will be quarantine, health management and integrated agriculture-aquaculture farming systems. It is hoped that construction will be well underway by early 2002 with a planned completion of late 2002.
The Hakalau Forestry Education and Research Network is located on a tropical tree plantation leased by CAFNRM from Mauna Kea Agribusiness, a division of C. Brewer Co. The Forest Conference Center includes a bunkhouse with kitchen and dining facilities. This 588-acre site is a natural laboratory and provides a practical, hands-on, research-based environment for forestry students.
Hilo’s location in the center of a large farming community also offers opportunities for field trips to many diversified agriculture, forestry and aquaculture enterprises.