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ilanMay 11, 2021

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Chemical thinning influence on ‘Golden Delicious’ apples Fruit number in Israel

Introduction:Fruit thinning is a common agricultural practice in apple (Malus X domestica) orchards, necessary to ensure profit. When too…

ilanJune 10, 2020

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Drones for precision agriculture

The drone is an unmanned aircraft, usually with 4 rotors that creates uplift with its propellers. Although quite similar to…

ilanJanuary 8, 2020

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Spectral assessment of plant traits: can we assess what we do not see?

The ever-increasing world population size, conjugated with the rising demand for agricultural products, poses serious challenges to agricultural plant research…

ilanOctober 22, 2019

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"Precision Agriculture is the only way to Sustainable Farming"

What an honor to talk to Naty Barak! Great insights about the challenges facing our food and agriculture systems and…

ilanJune 12, 2018

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Precision agriculture for agro-hightech production of Medical Cannabis

The ‘magic’ of cannabis – i.e., the unique wide range of its medical benefits – is attributed to the large…

ilanMay 20, 2018

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Drivers of a revolution

Precision agriculture is developing at an accelerating pace. Research companies expect a compact annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 20%…

ilanJune 3, 2018

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Agricultural robotics research activity

Avital Bechar, an engineer and researcher who works at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering (ARO) , is aiming together with…

ilanApril 23, 2018

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Croptimal – Bringing the laboratory to the field

Croptimal provides the analyses results and agriculture recommendations in real time and high accuracy which enables the grower to execute correction…

ilanMay 1, 2018

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Optical Sensing and Biosensing

Porous silicon (pSi) is an exciting nanostructured material poised to take center stage in the evolving biosensing effort for real-time…

ilanMarch 15, 2018

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Advanced agricultural technologies at the Volcani Institute

The Ministry of Agriculture and Volcani Center hosted today, the annual AGRITECH 2018 International Technology Exhibition that demonstrates the latest…

ilanJanuary 23, 2018

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The New Technology Solution for the Loss of Agricultural Products

According to FAO, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, there is today a loss of about 45% of agricultural products…

ilanMay 28, 2020

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The first solar-powered energy system on the banks of a water reservoir

On Thursday, October 26th, the Keren Kayemet Le’Israel-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) held a ceremony to inaugurate the Photovoltaic (PV) system…

ilanJune 1, 2020

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Israeli Companies’ Contribution to South African Agriculture

Agriculture in South Africa is structured both upon modern advanced technology and also upon farmers abandoning subsistence farming in favour…

ilanJuly 6, 2018

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Improved strategy for the control of parasitic weeds based on trans-specific gene

Broomrapes (Phelipanche and Orobanche spp.): despite their beautiful flowers they represent one of the most destructive and intractable problems to…

ilanMay 26, 2020

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Software Solutions for Plant Breeders and Variety Testers

The Israeli company Phenome Networks that was founded in 2008 by Prof. Dani Zamir*, a plant geneticist and Dr. Yaniv…

ilanSeptember 2, 2018

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Early Ripening of Lychee by Heating

The first stage in creating the lychee fruit is the “differentiation to bloom” stage. This stage takes place towards the…

ilanJuly 17, 2019

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When High – Tech Meets Agriculture

Increasing awareness of the food crisis expected by 2050, together with regulation in the field of food safety, are the…

ilanJune 6, 2019

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Growing under cover using precision agriculture technology

In the wake of recent global warming, we have witnessed increasingly frequent climatic extremes at varying locations worldwide, including…

ilanMay 13, 2019

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Seedo Qualifies as Registered Vendor for United Nations Global Marketplace

Seedo Corp., “Seedo” (OTCQB: SEDO), a tech company providing the world’s first fully automated and controlled indoor growing machine for…

ilanMay 27, 2020

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Zero in on protein with a new app

Seed breeding specialist Equinom, Ltd., launches its new Product Profiler app to help food companies select plant protein sources and characteristics…