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Dr. H.C. "Skip" Bittenbender
Extension Specialist for Coffee and Kava
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Contact Information:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences
3190 Maile Way, St. John 102
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822-2279
Office: St. John 112
Telephone: (808) 956-6043
Fax: (808) 956-3894
email: hcbitt@hawaii.edu
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Educational Background
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- B.S., Western Michigan University (1972)
- M.S., Michigan State University (1974)
- Ph.D., Michigan State University (1977)
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Research/Extension Interests
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- Coordinate research for coffee, kava and cacao for the College
- Coffee, kava statewide associations
- Mechanization of cultural practices for coffee and kava
- Farmer's Bookshelf - web-based information on crops
- Ag board, an email and clipping service on agriculture from local press
- Estimating yields of tropical fruits
- Genetic and environmental effects on fruit quality and performance
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Current Projects
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- Cultural and irrigation practices to increase kava lactones in kava
- Mechanical pruning for mechanical harvesting of coffee
- Effect of shade on coffee quality
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Recent Publications
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- Mauris, Silvia G., H.C.Bittenbender, Kent D. Fleming, Loren D. Gautz. 2003. Economic Evaluation of Mechanized Pruning of Coffee in Hawaii. Hort Technology 13(3):468-472.
- Bittenbender, H.C. and Virginia Eaton Smith. 2000. Growing Coffee in Hawaii. CTAHR, UHM, Honolulu, HI 40 pp.
- Proceedings of Hawaii Coffee Assn. 4: 1-3.
- Bittenbender, H.C., N.V. Hue, Kent Fleming, and Hilary Brown. 1998. Sustainability of Organic Fertilization of Macadamia with Macadamia Husk-Manure Compost. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 29 (3&4) 409-419.
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Last updated on 1/14/2004
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