Kalo farmer Bobby Pahia of Hoaloha Farms stands in a field of his dryland taro Friday morning in Waikapu. He is in charge roughly 300 acres of farmland owned by developer Mike Atherton and ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Hawaiian legend holds that taro is the sacred ancestor of all Hawaiian people. The staple root crop is so valued that ...

Among these opportunity crops are yams, sweet potato and taro, with some wild varieties offering significantly higher levels of key nutrients than their modern counterparts. But even crops like ...

"We are encouraging the farmers to boost taro production, providing them advice to maintain the quality of their crop to attract exporters," he added.