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All of the different cateogories by Fruits & Nuts: Avocado
General Sources
- Avocado Handbook
UCCE Ventura Co.
Production Economics
- Avocado Market: A Growth Market in a Mature Food Industry (PowerPoint to pdf)
Roberta Cook, Dept. Ag. and Resource Economics, UC Davis. 2003
Production Management
- Avocado Fact Sheet
- Avocado Information
- Postharvest Publications and Presentations
- Recommendations for Maintaining Postharvest Quality: Avocado
- Recovery from Fire Damage in Avocado Groves
- The crop of the day: Avocado, Persea americana
material source:Growing Avocados in the San Joaquin Valley. UC DANR Pub. 904, 1995
Dept. of Botany and Plant Science, UC Riverside
A database containing over 1,400 articles and presentations authored by UC postharvest specialists, USDA postharvest researchers, and others. The database is organized by topic and searchable.
Adel Kader, Dept. Plant Sciences, UC Davis, and Mary Lu Arpaia, Dept. of Plant Sciences and Botany, UC Riverside, UC Postharvest Technology Research and Information Center
Gary Bender, UCCE San Diego Co.
Paul Gepts, Dept. Plant Sciences, UC Davis. 2002
non-University of California Resources
- Avocadosource.com
- Crop Knowledge: Avocado
- Crop Profile for Avocados in California (pdf)
- Farmer's Bookshelf: Avocado
- Texas Plant Disease Handbook: Avocado
- Tropical Research and Education Center
Worldwide avocado data source. Hofshi Foundation
Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
USDA National Science Foundation Center for IPM. 1999 (48 pp.)
see link to Fruits, then Avocado. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa
Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), University of Florida
Organizations
- California Avocado Commission
- California Rare Fruit Growers
- California Specialty Crop Council
Irvine, CA
Fullerton, CA
Fresno, CA
Some links are to sites outside of the UC domain. No endorsement is intended of products, services, or information, nor is criticism implied of similar sites that are not mentioned.
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