I think, similar to Dole Pineapples, someone will buy thousands of acres of land in Hawaii and plant a bunch of Kava. Maybe that is what Zuckerberg is planning?
Supply shortage soon?
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Mixnpickngrinnin
Kava Curious
I do wonder how the recent volcanic eruption in Tonga has affected their Kava operations. I'd imagine unless directly damaged by salt water, Kava is pretty resilient given its native to the area and this is not its first natural disaster. But i don't know! I'd guess the disruptions may more be supply chain/ infrastructure based than huge sections of the crop itself being destroyed.
PapaCthulu
Kava Lover
Personally, I would be more worried about shipping costs going up right now with Ukraine than a Kava shortage. Oil prices are expected to go way up... in the US atleast.
Shaman-warrior
Kava Curious
Actually, oil prices dropped a bit yesterday (Mon)
PapaCthulu
Kava Lover
And I hope and pray that continues to happen.
I think the supply may be far much larger than it is now. I know kava grows in Papua and it's quite a large island. Australia wants to grow kava. I am also considering other locations - especially Indonesia and the Philippines?
Kava in movies and songs - I think it's only a matter of time
Nice pretty sure there is a company in Qld Australia looking for land and currently in stages to setup a tissue culture lab for their kava farm.
kasa_balavu
Yaqona Dina
Hopefully not you
We need to push back against any such attempts to grow kava outside the Pacific Islands.
yiki
Kava Enthusiast
That such an egotistical statement. I welcome any attempts to make kava affordable. Also the idea that a group of people owns a monopoly on plants is just super weird to me. We all live on this planet and should be allowed to live with all parts of nature.Hopefully not you
We need to push back against any such attempts to grow kava outside the Pacific Islands.
kasa_balavu
Yaqona Dina
Super weird it may be, but it's a thing your society came up with and imposed on the rest of the world. Patents and such.
In any case, please don't put words in my mouth. I never said anything about a monopoly. Neither did I say that some people should not be allowed to grow kava. Head on over to Logees.com and buy yourself a kava plant.
Kava was invented by the people of the Pacific Islands and it's the ONLY agricultural crop or product in which they currently have an advantage over the rest of the world. Corporations growing it elsewhere is going to do nothing but take away the ability of Pacific Islander growers, the vast majority of who live around or below the poverty line, to improve their lot.
It must be nice to sit in a position of privilege, every food crop from every corner of the world available at your local Whole Foods, while the peoples from which those crops originated still live in poverty.
You are free to grow kava as is anybody else, but for my part, I'm going to support the kava farmers of the Pacific Islands. Goodness knows they deserve it.
yiki
Kava Enthusiast
No need to get into a fight, but I did not come up with anything of sorts. I also do not support patents of any kind.
Nope, it is not nice a all to know people are suffering and often denied a fair wage.
As for the original topic: I believe the best way to keep money flowing to the islands is to work on establishing them as a premium producer of "authentic" very high quality kava. Strict testing, single cultivars and old growth harvests only. The rest of the world can fill the mass market.
