Hawai'i will receive $34 million in federal money in the 2009-2010 fiscal year for such agricultural projects as fruit-fly eradication, research and aid to farmers in remote locations, under a bill approved by Congress, U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye announced.

"Our farmers need all the support the federal government can provide to ensure that our food production and native species are protected," the Hawai'i Democrat said in a news release.

President Obama is expected to sign the agriculture appropriations bill, the news release said.

Here are some of the Hawai'i projects included in the bill:

• $5.05 million for watershed and flood prevention projects in the Lower Hamakua Ditch Watershed, Upcountry Maui Watershed, Lahaina Watershed and Wailuku-Alenaio Watershed.

• $5 million for a Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo.

• $3.34 million for research on tropical and subtropical agricultural products.

• $2.6 million to help geographically disadvantaged farmers compete in interstate and foreign commerce.

• $2.6 million to design a facility to produce multispecies sterile fruit flies, which would reduce the fruit-fly population.