Coffee Beetle Leaves State Seeking Quick Fix

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The coffee berry borer beetle is going to impact coffee quality, reduce yields and put some Hawaii farms out of business. All humans can hope to do is limit the damage.

Faced with the news that one of the islands' biggest crops is under attack from the "world's most destructive coffee pest," the state government is leaping into action.

But a proposed quarantine to restrict the movement of some coffee products from the already-infested Kona area of the Big Island to uninfested areas of the state is not a cure-all and is just the first step in the battle, industry experts and state officials say.

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