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Young men arranging clear plastic over solar dryer with fruit drying inside

Sharing postharvest knowledge, from classroom to mango farm

Q&A with Nick Reitz, doctoral student in the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology, who participated in a Trellis Fund project led by the Methodist University College Ghana.

Group visits pineapple plot at demonstration center in Guinea

Opening a center for horticulture innovations in Guinea

Andra Williams writes about progress in Guinea, where she has been working for the Horticulture Innovation Lab to help open a new horticulture training and services center, with young entrepreneurs called "AVENIR" agents.

close-up on passion fruit, cracked open in hand

Catch up with the Horticulture Innovation Lab at ASHS

For horticulturists in the United States, fall means the American Society for Horticultural Science is gathering for its annual conference.

Inspiring students to help farmers in developing countries (Apply now!)

The Horticulture Innovation Lab is recruiting graduate students from four U.S. universities to take part in 15 new Trellis Fund projects in Africa and Asia.

New project combines vegetables and livestock in Cambodian farming

New research supported by the Horticulture Innovation Lab at UC Davis aims to help farmers in Cambodia better integrate growing vegetables, raising livestock and maintaining healthy soil — all in the same place.

close-up on hands holding dried apricots

How new apricot research can help farmers and reduce poverty in Tajikistan

Apricots offer farmers in southern Tajikistan a profitable opportunity — particularly when dried for export to foreign markets. An international team led by U.S. scientists is digging into a new research project to help, advancing the science behind growing, drying, and selling these golden fruits.