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Impact Report
| For plan | Plant Management Systems: Urban Horticulture (Otero County) |
| Date | October 23, 2009, 4:34 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Otero County Pistachio Growers Workshop With Pistachio trees being especially suited to Otero county’s climate, relatively low in their water requirements, and produced in this county more than any other county in New Mexico, greater numbers of Otero County residents are planting pistachio trees in their landscapes, small orchards, and commercial production orchards. This growing interest in the cultivation of pistachio trees resulted in the Otero Agricultural Agent along with Extension Specialists presenting the Otero Pistachio Growers Workshop. Fifty-five pistachio growers (20% of which were backyard growers)from New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas attended this six hour program that provided information on the cultivation and care of pistachios covering: insect pests and integrated pest management, soils, irrigation, pistachio diseases and their management, and the general management of pistachio trees in orchards as well as home landscapes. Of the participants responding to the workshop evaluation (41 of 55 participants completed an evaluation): 97% of the participants agreed, ‘they expected to use the information presented in their pistachio orchard.’ 95% agreed, ‘the workshop increased or enhanced their knowledge of the topics discussed.’ 76% agreed ‘they expected to spray their pistachio trees for Septoria Leaf Spot and Alternaria Late Blight’ should Spring conditions so require.’ |