Surendra Dara

Dara is Director of Oregon State University’s North Willamette Research and Extension Center in Aurora, OR. Previously, he was a strawberry and vegetable crops advisor and affiliated IPM advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.
New Mechanical Strawberry Transplanter Wows
By Surendra Dara|October 1, 2016
New tool, developed in California, helps to alleviate labor needs during summer planting season.
Understand The Viral Disease Pallidosis-Related Decline In Strawberries
By Surendra Dara|August 7, 2013
Greenhouse whitefly is the predominant species of whiteflies on strawberries in California’s Central Coast. What used to be […]
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