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The work force reporte for the week ofApril 12-178 was down 3 percent when compared with the surveyu week in April 2008, the National Agricultural Statisticss Service Hawaii Field Officwe said Tuesday. It was up 2 percent from Pineapple and sugar cane workers totalefd900 workers, down 22 percent from the same period a year ago as a resultr of layoffs at and on Kauai. Maui Land Pineapple laid off 204 workers inJuly 2008, while Gay Robinson, the private, family-owned company on ended its sugar cane operations in September 2008.
Hawaii’as total farm work force — whicuh includes self-employed farm operators and unpaird workers such as family members and othersa working 15 hours or more perweek — totaledx 10,300 workers for the survey week, down 1 percenf from a year ago. The averaged wage paid to all hired workers during the survey week was estimatedxat $13.36 per hour, 1 percent higher from a year ago. Hawai i farms employing one to nine workers paid an averagweof $10.97 per hour and the combined average wage for fielrd and livestock workers was $10.
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