Smart Farming
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Remote Sensing of Stomatal Conductance
There are 150 different definitions for water deficit, which are roughly divided into four main categories: a. Drought due to…
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Revolutionary platform for an efficient data driven smart farm
The best scientists are working to sustain and streamline the agriculture industry, so that thousands of years of agriculture will…
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Peace Tree Farm gets rid of Pythium, improves bottom line
Peace Tree Farm is a multigenerational family business dedicated to the production of nursery specialty plants, such as basil and…
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Cooling down your greenhouse with a minimal carbon footprint
Global warming is here to stay. Temperatures are rising and are expected to rise further, causing severe heat stress on…
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Vineyards in the Desert – Growing Sustainably with Ginegar
Even in traditional wine regions with moderate or favorable microclimate conditions, growers today face multiple challenges, which judging by global…
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Greater Agricultural Challenges in Desert Conditions
Agriculture is an industry that presents diverse challenges in different places in the world, and under changing climatic conditions,…
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Finding the temperature threshold for Young `Hass` Avocado Plant Leaves
The worldwide demand for avocados has resulted in the planting of millions of young plants each year. However, global…
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Edete expands its artificial pollination services to wind-pollinated crops
Israeli agri-tech startup Edete Precision Technologies for Agriculture, which has thus far focused on developing a technological solution for artificial…
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Precision Farm Management: From Uncertainty to Profitability
It has been argued that farming is a type of gambling, and in recent years more and more farmers worldwide…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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%…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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