AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Super-intensive agriculture: Israel offers advanced farming techniques to the world. (Special Advertising Supplement)
SUPER-INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE Israel offers advanced farming techniques to the world
Israel has emerged as a think-tank for world agriculture. In this very small country, the most advanced forms of food and fiber production have taken root. And many of the path-breaking and trend-setting equipment and inputs for the world's farming, poultry and ranching industries claim Israel as their birthplace.
Why has this country been able to play such a dynamic role in agricultural technology so out of proportion with its geographical size and the numbers of its active farming population? And why are Israeli products increasingly being utilized all over the world? Some of the major characteristics of Israeli agriculture that are responsible for this country's contributions to the advancement of modern farming and ranching include the following:
1 - Israel has a farming population receptive to new ideas and able to design, produce and market new agricultural technologies.
Most Jews who migrated to what is now the State of Israel to join kibbutzim (communal farms) did not have farming backgrounds. While this deprived the early Israeli farmers of the benefits of generations of…
- Study site researches new farming techniques.
- Magazine article from: Farmers Guardian April 2, 2004 700+ words
...to look at sustainable farming techniques on a 60ha block of land...near Leicester. Novel farming techniques are being trialled to look...for various integrated farming techniques. Farmcare assesses the...
- Modern farming techniques promise higher income for farmer-cooperators.
- Magazine article from: BusinessWorld (Philippines) August 28, 2008 700+ words
...city promises higher income for farmer-cooperators by eliminating traditional practices and adopting modern farming techniques. The 5,000-square meter demo farm in Barangay Suwawan, Marilog District, about an hour's drive south...
- Precision farming techniques challenge.
- Magazine article from: Farmers Guardian August 8, 2003 700+ words
British pig producers must adopt the precision farming techniques of arable farmers if they want to remain competitive and challenge growing poultry consumption. That is the view of high-tech...
- Afghanistan- (Afghanistan gets new farming techniques).
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International December 23, 2003 700+ words
...rule of the Muslim fundamentalist Taliban regime, are getting lessons from Illinois on how to use the latest farming techniques and technology. Among the goals of the training program, developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana...
- Iran: Iran to Share K-Farming Techniques with Muslims.
- News wire article from: Thai Press Reports February 25, 2009 700+ words
...yield agricultural production, enabling the country to increase its export. Iran is willing to share its k-farming techniques with Malaysia and other Muslim nations in modernizing farms, specially in rural areas, Khalghani said, adding...
- Expert: Malaysia's rice farming techniques most modern in region, NEW STRAITS...
- News wire article from: Worldsources Online October 21, 2003 700+ words
Original Source: Emerging Markets Datafile PETALING JAYA, Mon. - Malaysia has the most modern rice farming techniques compared with other countries in the region and thus can play a significant role in the field, according to an insect ecologist...
- Expert: Malaysia's rice farming techniques most modern in region, NEW.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 21, 2003 700+ words
...English)) Byline: Wolf Blitzer, Laura McElroy PETALING JAYA, Mon. - Malaysia has the most modern rice farming techniques compared with other countries in the region and thus can play a significant role in the field, according to an...
- Prince wants to improve farming techniques ..BY: By T. Thant ..LD: KANGAR, Mon....
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 16, 2004 700+ words
...with the New Straits Times, he said among his plans was to maximise output per hectare per year by improving farming techniques and using selected fertilisers. "Agriculture and farm-breeding is a fast growing industry which could be developed...
- India farmers show interest in learning Pak farming techniques.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. November 14, 2006 700+ words
India farmers show interest in learning Pak farming techniques Islamabad, Nov 14 (PTI) A delegation of Indian farmers from Punjab visiting Pakistan have showed interest in the farm techniques...
- U.N.'s delegates visiting the valley: Two-day tour highlights farming...
- News wire article from: Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA) June 27, 2006 700+ words
...through the Northern San Joaquin Valley on Monday, touring agricultural sites to learn about modern and sustainable farming techniques. The representatives from Bangladesh, Portugal, the Republic of Congo and the Republic of Korea will continue...
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA
The AccessMyLibrary advertising network includes:
