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  • University of California Cooperative Extension irrigation and water management advisor Ali Montazar visits an avocado orchard in San Diego County to assist a grower with irrigation and salinity management issues. Photo courtesy of Ali Montazar
    Avocado growers to get irrigation tools, strategies from UC ANR’s Montazar

    Feb 15, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • Fruits and vegetables are highly perishable, which makes growing, harvesting, storing and shipping complicated and expensive.
    USDA's nutrition advice doesn't align with spending

    Mar 8, 2017

  • California produces almost 2,600 acres of parsley at a value of $18 million a year.
    Protecting California’s parsley crop

    Jan 6, 2015

  • Young amaranth in the field: weed it or eat it?
    When weeds make good eats

    Jun 17, 2014

  • Growing fruits and vegetables for both eating and selling can improve diets and boost incomes.
    Why growing fruits and vegetables matters

    Mar 5, 2013

  • Bitter melon is best when very young.
    UCCE makes Southeast Asian vegetables easy to eat

    Feb 13, 2013

  • Merced Spring Fair art. Painting by Katherine Crinklaw
    Fairground farms & farmyard festivals

    Jun 21, 2012

  • Many varieties of amaranth are grown in Kenya. <em>(HortCRSP photo by Stephen Weller)</em>
    More African vegetables on more plates

    May 29, 2012

  • This cherimoya variety is called El Bumpo. (Photo by Tammy Majcherek)
    Fruit that 'tastes like heaven'

    Feb 28, 2012

  • Moqua, one of the vegetables at Tchieng Farms, is sometimes called hairy melon or fuzzy gourd, and can be eaten in ways similar to zucchini.
    When vegetables become an adventure

    Dec 13, 2011

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    UC receives more than $6 million for specialty crop research

    Oct 19, 2011

  • The inside of a pitahaya. (Photo by Shermain Hardesty)
    You should taste it fresh

    Sep 6, 2011

  • These are not zucchini.
    Put down that zucchini! Pick up the ... bittermelon?

    Aug 7, 2011

  • UC helps farmers identify profitable specialty crops

    Mar 22, 2011

  • Photo: Shrini Upadhyaya
    Three ANR researchers receive NIFA grants

    Nov 4, 2010

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