As of February 1998
 

Island	Educated	Interested	Adopted	Acreage
Oahu	53	14	6	3
Hawaii	20	8	1	1
Maui	7	5	1	1
Molokai	13	13	0	0
Total	73	40	8	5.0

Since the project began in August 1997, 73 growers were educated about the new promising taro varieties through field demonstrations. Forty growers are interested in converting some of their production to the disease tolerant cultivars.  Currently, eight growers have adopted promising blight resistant cultivars. A majority of growers have opted to wait for demonstration field data and for consumer taste panel results before deciding to use the cultivars.
Performance data was not collected in 1998 due to unusually low rainfall.