Bilingual education strengthens agricultural industry workforce
Posted July 28th, 2015 by Ben DavisPlant pathologist Luisa Santamaria teaches plant disease prevention to agricultural workers. Since 2011, Santamaria has reached about 500 Spanish-speaking workers from 25 nurseries through a grant awarded by the USDA and NIFA, helping to keep Oregon’s $745m nursery industry healthy.
http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/summer-2015/growing-educated-workforce
