Sally H. Rice

Sally Rice has been an active member of the Hawaii agri-business community for 47 years. She is a graduate of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY., with a BS degree in Animal Science.

She presently has management responsibility for the Kona Division of Agro Resources, Inc. and development of tropical fruit and coffee orchards island wide. Among her responsibilities are coffee orchards, macadamia orchards, tropical fruit orchards, timber plantings, a native forest reforestation project, cattle ranches where she developed a rotational grazing system for a commercial cattle herd on improved tropical legume and grass pasture

Her experience includes the development of raw land into macadamia nut orchards, tropical fruit orchards and coffee plantations, and timber plantations. She has planned and developed agricultural livestock and crop irrigation water systems; reclamation of abandoned macadamia nut acreage; climate zone research on sub-tropical crops such as persimmon, kiwi, pepino, low chill apples and peaches, and artichokes. Her saline water irrigation tests, done in cooperation with the University of Hawaii College of Tropical Agriculture, in Kona on macadamia, coffee, cashew, mango, and papaya were the first definitive field tests on these crops in Hawaii aimed at determining growth, yield, and quality.

Rice was previously a partner and co-manager of Princeville Cattle Co., office manager of Kahuku Ranch, manager of Farms of Kapua, Ltd., and vice president of Honomalino Management, Inc.

Rice is presently president of the Hawaii Forest Institute and a director of the Hawaii Forest Industry Association; director of the Tropical Reforestation & Ecosystem Education Center (TREE); and member of the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation. She is a director and treasurer of Ka Ahahui 'o Pu'uwa'awa'a, a non-profit organization involved in ahupua'a management and cultural and eco-system restoration. Rice is past president of the Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers Association and the Hawaii Forest Industry Association.