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Waimanālo CARES Center, Oahu County

Phone: (808)259-9434
 E-mail: oahuces@hawaii.edu
 Website: https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oahu
 Contact person: Jari S Sugano

Mailing address:
41-698 Ahiki Street
Waimanalo, HI, 96795
Direction map to the Waiman&#x0101lo CARES Station. From Hihimanu Street, across from Waimanalo District Park, turn onto Ahiki Street. Continue down Ahiki Street and take the next available left turn to enter the Waimanalo CARES Station. Parking is available along the side of the main office building. Description: The Waimanālo Research Station has a modest cluster of buildings. The inventory of buildings includes an office/laboratory, general storage building, tractor/chemical storage building, cottage, open storage shed, and a condemned building.
Current activities: Areas include: truck crops, tropical fruit trees, entomology, termites, cover crops, vegetable breeding, papaya breeding, tropical tree breeding, corn breeding, post-harvest research, taro research, organic and sustainable research.
Special events: Field days announced
Crops in ground: papaya, banana, guava, ornamentals, corn, turf grass, sweet potato, tomato, soybean, mango, macadamia nut, and tropical trees.

Total acres: 128
 Elevation (ft): 65-95
 Annual rainfall (in): 55
 Ave. min. temperature ( F): 68
 Ave. max. temperature ( F): 82

 Soil series 1: Waialua
Soil order 1: Mollisols
Soil family 1: Vertic Haplustolls, very-fine, kaolinitic, isohyperthermic
Soil series 2: Kawaihāpai
Soil order 2: Mollisols
Soil family 2: Cumulic Haplustolls, fine, mixed, isohyperthermic

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