§155D-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter:

"Administrative costs" means costs associated with reviewing, approving, and recording expenditures and completing any reporting requirements associated with the grant program.

"Department" means the department of agriculture.

"Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrums, obtained by the milking of healthy cows or goats normally produced or marketed through the channels of the fluid milk trade or for further processing into milk products.

"Poultry products" means chicken eggs, uncooked in shell, egg-laying chicks, meat bird chicks, pullets, broilers, fryers, and laying chicken hens.

"Qualified feed developer" means any person that, at the time of application for and disbursement of funds under this chapter, is in the business of cultivating feed crops or manufacturing feed for qualified producers.

"Qualified producer" means any person that at the time of application for and disbursement of funds under this chapter is in the business of producing:

(1) Milk from a herd, located in Hawaii, of not less than ten cows or twenty-five lactating milking goats;

(2) Poultry products from a flock, raised and located in Hawaii, of not less than thirty birds;

(3) Pork from a herd, raised and located in Hawaii, of not less than ten sows;

(4) Beef that is grown, slaughtered, processed, and marketed in Hawaii. Producers who finish at least twenty head of beef cattle annually shall be eligible for this program;

(5) Sheep, lambs, or goats that are grown, slaughtered, processed, and marketed in Hawaii, with current annual sales of not fewer than thirty sheep, lambs, or goats; or

(6) Fish or crustaceans, farmed by aquacultural practices, with current annual sales of not less than two thousand pounds. [L 2007, c 221, pt of §2; am L 2013, c 200, §2; am L 2016, c 221, §3]