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Richard Molinar & Michael YangSmall Farms and Specialty Crops
UC Cooperative ExtensionFresno
“Agri-Culture Diversity”- Crops and People –
Small Farm Specialty Crops Conference –December 12, 2007
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UC Cooperative Extension
• “Cooperative Extension is the primary educational unit of UC’s Division of Agriculture -founded in 1913, and is supported by county, state, and federal governments”
UCCECOOPERATIVE EXTENSION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
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SE Asian Specialty Crops
Fresno County
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Agri-Culture Diversity» California Fresno
• All Farms 79,631 6,281• SE Asian 4,022 759 • Hispanics 9,784 1,073• African Amer 336 33• Amer Indian 1,357 111
– 2002 U.S. Ag Census
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The People in Fresno
• almost 1/2 of family farmers are minorities (2,000)
– 39% Asian (62% Hmong, 30% Lao, 3.4% Chinese)– 54% Hispanic
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SE Asian Vegetable Farmers in Fresno -759 Asians
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Hmong Lao Chinese Mien Vietnamese
1992 survey
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SE Asian Crops:
long bean 119 ac bittermelon(t+) 197 bok choy 98 daikon 361 eggplant 111 gailon 255 yam leaves 7
kabocha 65lemon grass 40 donqua 180 moqua 82 sugar pea (tip+) 158 sinqua 60sugarcane 9 you choy 76
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Lemongrass, Cymbopogan citratusMonocotyledoneae – Gramineaestir fry or tea, tender perennial, 10-month crop
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Multiplier Onions, Allium fistulosumMonocotyledoneae – Amaryllidaceae
milder than bunching onions, perennial
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Prickly Pear Cactus, Optunia spp.Cactaceae family
huevos con nopales, salsa, tacos de nopales, dye
nopales
Tuna -fruit
Cochineal scale - dye
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Jujube, Ziziphus jujubeRhamnaceae Family
Chinese date (fresh or dried), medicinal, small trees, no pests
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Okra leaf, Corchorus olitoriusTillaceae Family
Mucilaginous consistency like okra, edible shoot tips
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Purslane, Portulaca oleraceaePortulacaceae Family
fresh in salads, soups, stews
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Ceylon (Malabar) Spinach, Basella alba/rubraBasellaceae Family
(verdolaga) Succulent mature leaves in soups and stews
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Water Spinach, Ipomoea aquaticaConvolvulaceae Family
hollow stems, aquatic tender perennial
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Thai Pepper, Capsicum annuumSolanaceae Family
Considered some of the hottest peppers
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Eggplant, Solanum melongena / torvum / integrifoliumSolanaceae Family
Many different kinds – Thai, Hmong, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Italian, bitter, bunching
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? QUIZ ?Solanaceae Family
bitter, cultivated, and used in soups with meat, in stores
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Methi, Trigonella foenum-graecumLeguminosae (Fabaceae Family)
(fenugreek) an herb or spice. East Indian
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Long Beans, Vigna sesquipedalisLeguminosae Family
Asparagus or yardlong beans; dark or light green, mosaic, or red
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Snow Peas, Pisum sativumLeguminosae Family
Grown for either edible pod (trellised) or stem tips (untrellised), but not both
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Hyacinth bean, Lablab niger (Dolichos lablab)Leguminosae Family
immature fruits, poisonous in large quantities uncooked
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Bittermelon, Mormodica charantiaCucurbitaceaeFamily
Trellised for fruit, untrellised for tips, fruits & tips, bitterness (quinine) increases with age, pests?? nema
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Snake Gourd, Trichosanthes anguinaCucurbitaceae Family
Flowers are delicately trimmed, fruits turn red if overripe
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Sinqua (Luffa), Luffa actuangula/cylindricaCucurbitaceae Family
Trellised, mature dry cylindrica makes luffa scrubber, both make excellent squash
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Opo, Lagenaria sicerariaCucurbitaceae Family
fruits are smooth and hairless, tips also eaten
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Moqua, Benincasa hispida var. chiehquaCucurbitaceae Family
fruits are hairy and acquire a white waxy coating when mature, eaten immature
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Donqua, Benincasa hispidaCucurbitaceae Family
Chinese wintermelon, up to 30 pounds, untrellised
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Other Crops – daikon, Chinese cabbage, gailon, Mustard, Choys (bok, you, gai)
Cruciferae Family
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Crops with PotentialPapaya (-salad), sugarcane (fresh, rum), water chestnuts (plastic
lined trenches), galangal, taro, bamboo, edamame, Kabocha, chayote (fruit & tips)
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