Israel technology for agriculture

Israeli agricultural non-profit CultivAid helps support Tanzania’s growing wine industry

Tanzania's commercial wine industry is relatively young by global standards, dating back to the early 1960s when Catholic missionaries introduced modern viticulture around Dodoma.

|ByKEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
Israeli nonprofit CultivAid is working with Tanzanian grape growers and young agricultural professionals.
Herzl statue at Mikveh Israel before it was vandalized.

Statue of Theodor Herzl vandalized in central Israel days before Independence Day

According to findings at the scene, the vandals sawed off the bronze legs of Herzl's statue, which stands about seven meters tall, in an attempt to topple it.

|ByHODAYA RAN
Agrilight – a start-up project in the DeserTech’s agriculture sector, demonstrating that it’s possible to grow crops under a photovoltaic installation.

How the Negev desert became Israel's unlikely global tech powerhouse

From cyber hubs to climate tech, a once-dismissed vision is transforming the South into a global laboratory for solutions

|ByPATRICIA GOLAN
Sderot is providing 24/7 monitoring for dozens of remote farms and open areas, aiming to cut response times to incidents that include theft, vandalism, arson and suspected infiltrations, according to the nonprofit behind the initiative.

Israeli nonprofit builds 24/7 operations room to protect isolated farms

Moledet, founded after years of attacks on remote agricultural sites, monitors dozens of farms and open areas, linking alerts from the field with security forces in real time.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

SPNI files High Court petition against Agriculture Ministry demanding fishing reforms

"We must save the ecological system of the Mediterranean Sea from collapse – 100,000 protected animals die every year in the sea, as a result of uncontrolled fishing," a statement from SPNI said.

MARCH 1, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
Fresh fish

BGU researchers partner with EU countries on pepper harvesting robot

"Sweeper" program to develop first generation of harvesting robots on the market.

FEBRUARY 22, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
A demonstration of the picking arm at BGU as part of the preceding CROPS program with former PhD student Efi Vitzrabin

A green and pleasant land

FEBRUARY 18, 2015ByMICHAEL ORDMAN
The Jerusalem Post

Grapevine: Campaigning in many tongues

Election campaigns are being conducted in numerous languages.

JANUARY 28, 2015ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Uri Ariel

Formerly toxic Neot Hovav dump wins Cleantech 2015 Prize

The annual exhibition and conference exhibits Israeli innovation and ideas.

JANUARY 28, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
Moovit app has 10 million users

Agriculture crimes drop 14% in 2014

The past year sees cattle and sheep thievery plummet the most.

JANUARY 18, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
A border police officer at a farm

Israeli innovators receive grants to aid developing world

The Grand Challenges Israel program aims to use technology to solve health, water and agricultural challenges in developing nations.

JANUARY 18, 2015ByNIV ELIS
Indian farmers in Pusa working with former Israeli agriculture minister Orit Noked in 2008

‘When we say hi-tech, we think about Israel’

Vietnamese agriculture officials: Cooperation is increasingly strong, with growth potential.

NOVEMBER 30, 2014BySHARON UDASIN
Tran Kim Long, director-general of the Vietnamese Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry's international cooperation department, at his office in Hanoi.

Israel teaches Dominican Republic how to turn trash into cooking gas

Umm Batin residents recently recieved machines that convert kitchen waste and animal manure into usable cooking gas and liquid fertilizer.

OCTOBER 5, 2014BySHARON UDASIN
A beduin Umm Batin resident uses the HomeBioGas system.

Know your pitahaya from your anona

Often the result of 20 years of research, exotic fruit thrives here.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014ByMIRIAM KRESH
Cherimoya fruit