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Horticulture Innovation Lab research on fruit and vegetable production examine field practices that improve yields, decrease drudgery, and make farming more profitable for smallholder farmers.

Challenges to safe vegetable production

Presentation, 2016 Symposium on Horticultural Science

Building regional capacity in Phytophthora diagnostics in Latin America

Led by Jean Ristaino, North Carolina State University

Plant disease is a limiting factor in agricultural production in Latin America. Plant pathogens cause losses

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Mexico

Group gathers around Darcy Boellstorff as she plugs her computer into a GIS system near Mzimba.

Establishing GIS data for horticultural projects in Malawi

Led by Darcy Boellstorff, Bridgewater State University

Led by Darcy Boellstorff of Bridgewater State University, this project's international team is focused on acquiring needed geographic information for use in a geographic information system (GI

Malawi

Increasing smallholder use of grafting and tunnels for tomatoes and peppers in Kenya

Led by Matt Kleinhenz, The Ohio State University

This project provides information and strategies to improve tomato and pepper production through the use of grafting and low/high tunnel technologies among smallholder growers in Kirinyaga District

Kenya

"Conservation Agriculture , Drip Irrigation, and Rainwater Harvesting for Vegetable Production, Manny Reyes" title slide

Lightning talk: Conservation agriculture for vegetable production

Presentation, 2016 annual meeting

American and Kenyan men lead a farming extension class with poster, outside in Kenya

Testing a gender-tailored extension model in Kenya

Led by Steven Fennimore, University of California, Davis

Leadership development is key to sustained improvements in agricultural production in developing countries particularly in the rural areas.

Kenya

Increasing production of indigenous African leafy vegetables in Kenya

Led by Stephen Weller, Purdue University

This project enhances the potential for production, utilization and marketing of African leafy vegetables in Eastern Africa.

Kenya

Two young men kneeling by a row of vegetable plants inside a greenhouse.

Improving bell pepper production in passively ventilated structures in Latin America

Led by Bielinski Santos, University of Florida

Bell pepper production in Central America and the Caribbean has become one of the main agricultural commodities for export to the United States and the European Union.

Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti

Peter Hirst

Professor
Purdue University

[email protected]

Woman farmer in Cambodia in vegetable farm blog with mulch and drip irrigation tank.

Empowering women vegetable growers with drip irrigation in Cambodia

Led by Manuel Reyes, Kansas State University

Horticulture crop production, a woman's domain in parts of Southeast Asia, is plagued by yield losses because of drought and unequal opportunities for women.

Cambodia

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