After reviewing the newest statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, local growers of designer gene crops are declaring that they have become the second biggest crop category in Hawaii. Hawaii’s genetically engineering seed industry is now valued at $70.4 million, according to the National Agricultural Service Hawaii Field Office, exceeded only by pineapple at $79.3 million. Sugar cane has slipped to third place with a value of $58.3 million.