Israel Agrotechnology

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• Israel Agrotechnology
• Growth its all in your hands

September 2008
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Israel
Lebanon
N
Syria
Mediterranean Sea
22,000 Km²
Mountain Range
Tel Aviv
Jordan Valley
Jerusalem
Dead Sea
Jordan
135 km. 90 min.
Negev
470 km. 9 hrs.
Egypt
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Rainfall
Annual Average (mm) North 720 Mountain
550 South 30
1,000
800
700
500-600
200-400
100-200
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Geography
Surface 22,000 Km2 Length 470 Km Width
20-135 Km
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Agricultural Characteristics

• Scarce natural resources, particularly water and
  arable land
• Over half the countrys area is desert
• Agriculture Sector researchers,
  extensionists, farmers and agriculture-related
  industries working closely to develop new methods
  in all branches.
• Intensive system of production yields modern
  agriculture

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Industry
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Israeli Agrotech Exports

• Greenhouses
• Dairy Farming
• Poultry Farming
• Aquaculture
• Water Management Irrigation
• Seeds
• Mechanization
• Fertilizers and Pesticides
• Turnkey Projects, Consulting and Know-How

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Greenhouses

• Natural restrictions of soil, water and climate
  led to Israeli-developed greenhouse technologies
  for high added value crops.
• Greenhouse systems, including specialized plastic
  films, and heating, ventilation and structure
  systems, enable Israeli farmers to achieve
  superior results

• Grow more than 3,000,000 roses per hectare per
  season, and an
• Average of 300 tons of tomatoes per hectare per
  season, four times the yields of open fields

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Dairy Farming

• Israeli-developed advanced technologies that have
  revolutionized the industry.

3. Israels dairy exports include frozen semen,
embryos for transplant, heifers, advanced milking
and computerized feeding systems, consulting, and
joint international project development.
2. Average milk production has increased two and
a half times since the 1950s from 3,900 liters
annually to an average of nearly 11,000 liters
per dairy cow.
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Poultry Farming
Israeli-developed innovations improve
production and make poultry farmers work more
efficient

• Breeding - Breeds developed in Israel highly
  disease-resistant, adaptable to extremes of
  climate and heat, and characterized by rapid
  growth rate, high egg production and low-fat
  meat.
• Equipment - automatic egg collector, poultry
  drinking systems anddurable plastic slat
  flooring that contribute to hygienic conditions
  in the henhouse.
• Control Systems - Sophisticated control systems
  maintain desired levels of humidity, heat,
  lighting, feed, ventilation and cooling 24 hours
  a day.

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Aquaculture
Israel employs an intensive form of aquaculture

• Fish farming is carried out in the open sea in
  floating cages, and in man-made reservoirs and
  ponds.
• Due to the lack of fresh water, fish farmers use
  closed water systems for intensive farming. Some
  projects also use reservoir water for irrigation.
• Wide range of ornamental fish and marine plants
  are bred, including coldwater fish, tropical fish
  and water lilies. Exported overseas, especially
  to Europe.

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Water and Irrigation

• Worlds most advanced user of agricultural
  irrigation half of all agricultural land under
  irrigation.
• Pioneer in developing innovative technologies and
  accessories drip irrigation, automatic valves
  and controllers, media and automatic filtration,
  low discharge sprayers and mini- sprinklers,
  compensated drippers and sprinklers.
• Computer-controlled drip irrigation huge water
  savings and enables fertigation.
• Global Reputation more than 80 of production
  exported.

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• Worldwide demand for Israeli seeds and seedlings
• Disease resistant seed varieties developed
• durable in storage and suited to a variety
• of climatic conditions.
• 40 of European tomato greenhouses
• use seeds of Israeli-developed and
• produced tomato hybrid with long shelf life.
• Other Israeli successes
• Seedless Watermelon
• Resistant Squash
• High-Yield Cucumbers
• Saucer-Shaped Yellow Zucchini

Seeds
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Mechanization

• Israel manufactures and exports a
• variety of specialized agricultural
• equipment, including
• Mobile Celery Packing House
• Machinery for Digging Silage and mixing the feed
  uniformly
• Poultry Equipment drinkers, automatic egg
  collectors, climate control systems and scales
  for weighing
• Air-Blast Sprayer for use in citrus growing and
  vineyards which provides an efficient cover of
  the tree.
• Flower Bulb Transplanters.
• Machinery for Packing Houses.

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Fertilizers
Israels southern region, particularly Dead Sea
area, rich in mines providing potassium,
phosphorus and magnesium for the agricultural
sector

• Direct raw material exports
• Local processing and compounding to enhance
  utility,
• effectiveness and environmental safety.
• Remarkable developments include
• Application of fertilizers through drip
  irrigation buried in the ground to ensure that
  less mobile components, such as phosphorous, will
  reach the roots directly.
• Controlled-Release Fertilizers coated in
  polymers to ensure slow, prolonged release and
  delivery via diffusion. Slow release fertilizers
  allow better exploitation of the fertilizer and
  less groundwater pollution.

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Plant Protection
Israeli companies manufacture and export
pesticides and herbicides for the control of
insects, fungi and weeds

• Biological materials non-pathogenic to both
  plants and humans for treating diseases in
  plants. Effective in treating diseases caused by
  pests, fungus and viruses in wide range of crops.
• Methods for disinfecting the soil, using
  formaline as a substitute for methyl bromide.
• Defoliant for cotton and herbicides for early and
  specific treatment of weeds.

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Turnkey Projects, Consulting and Know-How
Increasingly, Israeli agrotechnology companies
join forces and supply turnkey projects for both
crop and livestock development programs

• Multiple skills, talents and experiences are
• enlisted to provide integrated solutions that
• embrace
• Soil
• Water Additives
• Plants
• Livestock Varieties, Equipment and Structures

The Results Improved Yields at Lower Cost A
win-win situation in a resource-stressed world
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• Thank you
• Yitzhak Kiriati
• Director
• Agrotechnology, Water Environment
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• kiriati_at_export.gov.il