If you trace back the food production in Hawaii it goes back to the early settlers between the years of 500 and 700 AD. These settlers brought with them taro, sugar cane, bananas, nuts, pigs, chickens, sweet potatoes, and many other foods that were managed in small farms throughout the islands. By the mid-19th centuries pineapple and sugar fields started to dominate Hawaiiʻs agricultural industries. Because of the cheap labor and cheap land by 1955 the productions in Hawaii reached its peak with its highest numbers in production. However, when Hawaiʻi became state in 1959 the the farm labor costs had a rise and found that production cost could be made cheaper in places such as India, Puerto Rico, Philippines, and else where. 1960s Hawaii shifted from being a plantation dependent economy to a tourist based economy till today.