New partnership to help UC Merced students learn more about almond production

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller concern is taking enactment to assistance students larn astir our section almond production.

On Wednesday, UC Merced signed an statement with the Almond Board of California and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

This concern aims to collaborate connected research, hands-on grooming and hole the adjacent procreation of leaders successful agriculture.

The assemblage says this concern volition assistance students beforehand sustainable almond accumulation and section workplace innovation.

California grows 80 percent of the world's almonds, with the Central Valley being 1 of lone 5 regions successful the satellite suitable for increasing the nuts.