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NMC CREES Field Day today
NMC CREES is inviting farmers and interested community members to its Field Day event to learn about pest management, fertilizer application, drip irrigation, and high tunnel productions. The Field Day will be on Tuesday, April 25, 2017. (Contributed Photo)
The Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research, Extension, and Education Service Agricultural Field Day, which will be held today, April 25, 2017, will feature information collected from the department’s crop research activities.
All farmers and interested community members are invited to attend.
Additionally, the Field Day will provide attendees with an opportunity to observe a variety of crops that have been cultivated at the NMC CREES Center for Agriculture in As Perdido. These crops include tomato, pepper, lettuce, corn, melon, okra, cucumber, and squash varieties.
There will also be brief, informal discussions and instructional guidance on pest management, fertilizer application and management, high tunnel productions, and drip irrigation, and much more.
The aim of the of Field Day is to enable farmers and anyone interested in growing and cultivating crops to benefit from the field research and science that NMC CREES researchers and extension agents will be sharing.
Those interested in attending the Field Day can attend two separate sessions on April 25, 2017. The first session will be from 9am to 11am and the second session will be from 1pm to 3pm.
For more information, please contact the NMC CREES office by calling 237-6840 or contact Solly Takai Nakamura at 789-1017 or Arnold Route at 788-7724. (NMC)
