Protecting kava ‘a waste of time’

FijiTimes

Protecting kava ‘a waste of time’

Efforts by Pacific countries to protect kava will be a waste of time, said American kava bar pioneer Jeffrey Bowman. Speaking to this newspaper from Boca Raton, Florida, Mr Bowman, who co-founded The Nakamal, North America’s first kava bar in 2002, said efforts should instead be put on producing higher quality kava from the Pacific to supply what he predicts will soon become a huge global kava industry that the Pacific is currently not prepared …