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===Agriculture=== Maui's primary agriculture products are corn and other seeds, fruits, cattle, wine, and vegetables.<ref>{{Cite web |last=US Department of Agriculture |date=2013 |title=20121 Census of Agriculture β Maui County |url=https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/County_Profiles/Hawaii/cp15009.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503175631/https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/County_Profiles/Hawaii/cp15009.pdf |archive-date=2017-05-03 |access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref> Specific products include [[coffee]], [[macadamia]] nuts, [[papaya]], [[flower]]s and fresh [[pineapple]]. In 1974, Emil Tedeschi of the [[Napa Valley]] winegrower family of [[Calistoga, California]], established the first Hawaiian commercial winery, the Tedeschi Winery (later Maui Wine) at Ulupalakua Ranch, initially focused on [[pineapple wine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mauiwine.com/company/our-story/|title=Our Story|website=Maui Wine}}</ref> Historically, Maui's primary products were sugar and pineapple. [[Maui Land & Pineapple Company]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Maui Land & Pineapple Company homepage |url=http://www.mauiland.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422161656/https://www.mauiland.com/ |archive-date=22 April 2021 |access-date=8 December 2010}}</ref> and Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company<ref>{{cite web |title=Commercial and Sugar Company |url=http://www.hcsugar.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415040241/http://www.hcsugar.com/ |archive-date=15 April 2021 |access-date=8 December 2010}}</ref> (HC&S, a subsidiary of Alexander and Baldwin Company) dominated agricultural activity. In 2016, sugar production ended.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bittersweet End to Cane Plantation Days |url=http://hpr2.org/post/bittersweet-end-cane-plantation-days |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121053119/http://hpr2.org/post/bittersweet-end-cane-plantation-days |archive-date=2016-01-21 |access-date=2016-01-07 |website=hpr2.org}}</ref> Haliimaile Pineapple Co. grows pineapple on former Maui Land & Pineapple Co. land.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maui Pine assets sold for quarter of worth β Pacific Business News |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/01/04/daily44.html?ana=yfcpc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620093528/http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2010/01/04/daily44.html?ana=yfcpc |archive-date=2017-06-20 |access-date=2016-01-15 |website=Pacific Business News}}</ref> In November 2014, a Maui County referendum enacted a moratorium on [[Genetic engineering in Hawaii|genetically engineered crops]].<ref>{{cite news |date=November 5, 2014 |title=Election results show money doesn't guarantee votes |url=http://khon2.com/2014/11/05/election-results-show-money-doesnt-guarantee-votes/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216180355/http://khon2.com/2014/11/05/election-results-show-money-doesnt-guarantee-votes/ |archive-date=2014-12-16 |access-date=16 November 2014}}</ref> Shortly thereafter Monsanto and other agribusinesses obtained a court injunction suspending the moratorium.{{R|monsanto}} In 2018, Canadian pension fund Public Sector Pension Investment Board purchased A&B's Maui farmlands (41,000 acres) and contracted with Mahi Pono, a subsidiary of Trinitas Partners to return these fallow lands to agriculture. Mahi Pono also has a controlling interest in Maui Cattle Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mahi Pono now majority owner of Maui Cattle Co. hui of ranchers |url=https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2020/02/mahi-pono-now-majority-owner-of-maui-cattle-co-hui-of-ranchers/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=mauinews.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mahi Pono to bring more crops to packing facility|first=Melissa|last=Tanji |url=https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2023/11/mahi-pono-to-bring-more-crops-to-packing-facility/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=mauinews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
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