The NMB’s Extension Workshops and Outreach Meetings enhances communication between NMB staff and mango industry, providing an opportunity to showcase tools and resources to better support the needs of mango industry members. These meetings create spaces for critical conversations about how the NMB is working with the industry to improve mango quality and superiority in the U.S. marketplace to help increase consumption. During these meetings the NMB staff will present the latest information on Marketing programs and updates, and Research program developments on postharvest best management practices. New this year, to continue enhancing and adding value to outreach meetings, the NMB will engage its domestic audiences with different researchers and topics concerning mangos and the industry as a whole.
The Extension Workshops and Outreach Meeting schedule is as follows:
Domestic Meetings
- Long Beach, CA – March 26, 2015 (Ripe and Ready to Eat Mango Conference)
- McAllen, TX – April 23, 2015
- Philadelphia, PA – June 4, 2014
- Nogales, AZ – June 25, 2015
- Miami Mango Festival – July 11 & 12, 2015
- Pompano Beach, FL – August 13, 2015
- Atlanta, GA (PMA) – October 23-25, 2015
- Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico – May 6 & 7, 2015
- Mexico, South – May 21 & 22, 2015
- Guayaquil, Ecuador – July 9, 2015
- Juazeiro, Brazil – July 22 & 23, 2015
- Mexico, Central North – August 6 & 7, 2015
- Piura, Peru – September 30 & October 1, 2015
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti – October 14, 2015
- Guatemala – December 9 & 10, 2015