Agritech Blog

  Interview with Eli Shalmon,  eli.s@pelemix.com  Director of the Cannabis division at Pelemix International planting substrate is very important for successful cultivation, especially regarding intensive greenhouse or indoor growing, which creates a micro- and macro climate  conditions throughout cultivation. the plant receives water via the substrate with micro and macro elements essential for its development. total control of the planting substrate allows good control over the plant during all its stages. cannabis for the pharma and leisure markets has become more and more a commercial plant using various technological growing systems – greenhouses, indoor facilities and hybrid cultivation processing. pelemix  is an international producer of advanced planting substrates composed of coconut and a professional growth compound based on organic materials such as peat and perlite, etc. the growth substrates the company offers to the precision agricultural market w...

  Mapal Plastics  has existed for almost 30 years. In the last few years the company caters to the dramatic increase in the Organic & Biologic agriculture, primarily in the developed world.   Mapal’s Rub Zvi tells us: There is a growing demand for Mapal growing systems in the organic & biologic worldwide markets. In the North America countries, Canada, USA & Mexico, according to the OMRI (Organic Materials Review Institute) organization regulations, growers can use soilless growing technology when growing organic products. We face growing demands also from India, China and some of the Far Eastern countries. In Europe, a strong market for organic produce, the IFOAM (International Foundation of Organic Agriculture Movement) is the leading European regulator. The IFOAM doesn’t enable growing organic produce off the ground level, however, the EU growers are expanding their use of Biologic growing systems.   What are the main differences between Organic & ...

  Israeli Development is the first in the world with breakthrough technology that enables rapid production of avocado seedlings in sterile tissue cultures appropriate for export – in response to the huge demand for avocado throughout the world. Following the successful research at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute and tremendous demand, the Bestree Company was established to produce and market avocado seedling cultures all over the world. Avocado is considered the new “green gold” and has achieved great economic success alongside other agricultural crops. Its nutritional values are of the highest regard, and the worldwide demand for avocado continues to rise, year after year. Therefore, the demand to cultivate avocado orchards is huge! Approximately 15 million (!) new avocado seedlings are planted every year around the world due to the increased demand from European countries, as well as from China and Japan. In 2018, the global avocado market was estimated at approximately 13 b...

Containing cultivated royal jelly protein, with proven improved antibacterial property compared to the commercial honey examined BEEIO HONEY  reported its successful production of cultivated royal jelly protein with antibacterial activity via a bioreactor and the successful production of cultivated honey with proven antibacterial activity/ Beeio Honey Technologies Ltd., a private company owned in its entirety by the Company (the “Subsidiary”), announced its successful production of cultivated honey in which it successfully integrated cultivated royal jelly protein, using the production facility established by the Subsidiary in its labs; therefore,the Subsidiary believes, that as of the date of this immediate report and based on public information in the media and online, it is the first company in the world to produce cultivated honey that contains cultivated royal jelly protein.   The Subsidiary has also notified the Company that it has successfully completed an experiment th...

  In nature, cereals and grasses, olives, dates, pistachios, walnuts, vegetable seeds and more, are wind pollinated Israeli agri-tech startup  Edete  Precision Technologies for Agriculture, which has thus far focused on developing a technological solution for artificial pollination of insect-pollinated crops such as almonds, is expanding its services to wind-pollinated crops. They will start with pistachios, one of the world’s fastest growing crops. As a first step in addressing wind-pollinated crops,  Edete  conducted the first pilot of artificial pollination of pistachio orchards in California. The pilot was carried out over the course of a week, in an area of over 80 acres, which included young and mature trees. Among other things, the pilot explored the possibility of increasing the yield of young female trees and of securing and increasing the yield of mature orchards. Wind pollination is carried out in nature on various plants, including cereals and grasse...

  The world’s leading irrigation company aims to use 45% of recycled plastic in global dripline production by 2030 Orbia’s precision agriculture business  Netafim , the global leader of sustainable precision irrigation solutions and agricultural projects, today announced the opening of Mexico’s largest agricultural plastics recycling facility in Culiacán, with an initial operating capacity of over 3,000 tons of plastic per year. Located in Mexico’s vegetable heartland and designed with full circularity in mind, Netafim’s state-of-the-art facility will receive used driplines from farmers across Mexico. Netafim currently operates a variety of recycling programs including a plant in Fresno, California as well as circularity programs in Australia, Israel, Peru, Chile, and Spain among other countries. By 2030, Netafim aims to have all its driplines contain at least 45% recycled content. “At a time when precision irrigation solutions are needed to combat extreme drought and other we...

Adapting irrigation infrastructure to changing needs in the world of agriculture By Sarit Hatzbany, Application engineer in the Irrigation sector supporting the Europe & India market, Bermad Today, as the world of agriculture is undergoing rapid modernization and everyone is talking about agrotechnology, there are still areas where it is necessary to close a gap of hundreds of years in irrigation infrastructure. That’s the case in northern Spain, where a local water corporation was supplying water to 70 growers over 19,000 dunams (1,900 hectares) through old and inefficient canals and manual routing. Because of the large area and elevation differences, regular water supply was impossible and the consumed water could not be controlled and measured. Automatic, controlled and efficient: Modernization of irrigation systems in large agricultural areas Following an investment of €9.5 million in 2015, the agricultural zone underwent a modernization process, installing irrigation systems w...

Solution – Precision and Efficiency of the Innovative PICKAPP system Yoram Gommershtadt, Co-Founder & Chairman ▪︎ PickApp Farming Agriculture is an industry that presents diverse challenges in different places in the world, and under changing climatic conditions, as it functions in situations of uncertainty. Farmers all over the world are experiencing a decrease in the resources available to them – whether land or water. This is compounded by many other seasonal difficulties, such as decreasing exchange rates, the need to find workers, the rise in maritime transportation costs, increasing competition and the market’s expectation for high-quality produce. Hence the challenge facing farmers all over the world is increasing and farmers who want to make a profit must constantly be improving, i.e. reducing costs and producing more. In order to maintain profitability in a world where revenues are declining and expenses rising, the former must be increased, by adopting management methods ...