Big Island groups offer $30,000 reward for information on hacked papaya trees [View all]

By Star-Advertiser staff
POSTED: 12:40 p.m. HST, Dec 13, 2011

A $30,000 reward is being offered for information concerning the destruction of 10 acres of papaya trees in three adjoining fields in Puna in July.

The three properties are owned by separate people in the Kapoho area.

The reward is being jointly funded by the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association, the Hawaii Papaya Industry Association and the Mayor Billy Kenoi.

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The scene is near the area where police said 8,500 trees were destroyed a year earlier.

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Some people speculate that this is over farmers growing the GMO Rainbow papaya variety. Even if their goals are noble, this is not the proper way to express them