California Secretary of Agriculture….Really Cool Guy!

Posted by Chris Kerston

February 27, 2007

I had the pleasure of meeting California’s Secretary of Agriculture, A.G. Kawamura.  I can honestly say I have never met a politician who I believed had more of a sincere desire to serve the people.  Kawamura is by no means a politician by education or by trade; he started out a strawberry farmer.  Over the years of serving on boards and working with agricultural organizations he built a reputation as being a humble person willing to help his fellow farmer.  This eventually led to him become the Secretary of Ag in California which is a 35 billion dollar plus industry.  I had the opportunity to sit through some Q&A with him and I found him to be genuinely dedicated to public service, committed to promoting youth and instituting the next generation in ag, and he also seemed to have a strong sense of sustainability and its importance.  I was blown away to hear someone in such a public position talk about the state’s amazing future in edible landscaping, agricultural technonology, and boom of biofuels.  If you would like more information check out his bio at http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/message.htm or watch a brief clip of him at http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/agonag.htm .