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Former hostage Shoshan Haran speaks about being taken captive in video for an Open University award on May 29, 2025 (Courtesy)
June 4, 2025, 11:27 am
Former hostage honored for pioneering farming work in Africa
Shoshan Haran receives honorary doctorate from Open University for Fair Planet NGO
By Jessica Steinberg
Emeritus Prof. Haim Rabinowitch with his potatoes at a Negev observation plot in southern Israel. (Ore Eldan, Rumafeed)
September 19, 2024, 9:58 pm
Kibbutz ravaged on Oct. 7 looks to renewal through gene-edited potatoes and tomatoes
As the southern community mourns its losses, Holit is set to trial a potato whose natural toxins have been gene-edited out and a tomato that grows semi-dried on the bush
By Sue Surkes
The PLANETech conference held at Jaffa Port on June 18, 2024. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
June 23, 2024, 4:24 am
Confab shows off startups, from AI-driven weeders and tree tubes to alternative fats
PLANETech conference in Tel Aviv brings scientists, developers, entrepreneurs and investors together to help solve climate, environmental, sustainability challenges
By Sue Surkes
US Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with President Isaac Herzog as they speak to the media prior to a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, July 19, 2023. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/File)
July 20, 2023, 1:41 am
Herzog, VP Harris announce $70 million agriculture tech fund for Mideast, Africa
Five-year initiative will focus on water resources, ‘climate-smart’ agriculture technology; Veep stresses ‘unbreakable bond’ between countries
By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid
The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)
December 13, 2022, 4:36 pm
In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks
Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year
By Sue Surkes
Ashalim solar power station in the Negev desert. August 21, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2022, 6:18 pm
First map of Israeli desert tech identifies over 300 companies
Report aims to expose country’s strength and potential for tackling desert challenges worldwide
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A strawberry farm near the city of Netanya, on February 20, 2022. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 14, 2022, 12:47 am
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv nab fourth place in list of best global agtech ecosystems
US research firm Startup Genome lists Israeli cities jointly as top location in the Middle East for food technology, trailing only Silicon Valley, New York and London
By Luke Tress
Buying vegetables at an Osher Ad store in Jerusalem, August 12 2021 (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
August 26, 2021, 6:39 am
Doubts crop up as bid to lower price of produce targets farms for reform
Plan, which would up imports and pay farmers directly rather than via tariffs, ‘risks destroying entire sector,’ warns academic as data suggests retail markups may be to blame
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky smells cannabis leaves in 2016 (YouTube); Israeli medical cannabis growing operations. (Courtesy Israeli Medical Cannabis Agency)
July 9, 2021, 3:18 pm
As Israel’s biblical farming sabbatical nears, medical cannabis is budding issue
Shmita, the divinely commanded halt to agricultural work in the Holy Land every 7th year, starts again in September. What does this mean for religious users of locally grown pot?
By Yaakov Schwartz
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October 20, 2020, 11:11 am
Fields of dreams: UAE farmers want Israeli sensors that let crops ask for water
Israel’s CropX prepares to take its winning technology to the parched farms of the Gulf
By Sara Toth Stub
Dotan Borenstein, CEO of SaliCrop, stands next to a tractor distributing carrot seeds for a field trial near the Gaza border, August 23, 2020. (Courtesy)
August 25, 2020, 5:25 pm
Israeli firm develops groundbreaking method to grow seeds in saline soil
With a fifth of world’s agricultural land now too salty for cultivation, SaliCrop trials in India, Israel, see treated seeds yield up to 32% more crops than regular ones
By Sue Surkes
A honeybee pollinating a flower. (Dana Wachter/Times of Israel)
April 21, 2020, 5:02 pm
Artificial pollinator aims to take sting out of bee colony loss
Israeli entrepreneur Eylam Ran says shortage of honeybees could plunge agriculture into major crisis, aims to market invention by 2023
By ToI Staff
Bananas on display in a Jerusalem market. Banana farming is one of the most stable and profitable agricultural sectors in Israel and the largest among the country's plantation-based crops. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 6, 2019, 5:13 pm
Banana republic: Israel faces killer fungus that can destroy the crop nationwide
Israeli researchers struggle to contain a particularly violent strain of Panama disease, a global threat that is eating its way through one of the country’s most profitable crops
By Amir Ben-David
Zenan Sumlut examines rice at the organic rice mill she now manages in Kachin, Myanmar. (Emily Fishbein/Times of Israel)
June 14, 2019, 7:00 am
Israeli agriculture courses help developing world students reap what they sow
Partnership initiatives through the Arava International Center for Agricultural Training give trainees tools to return home and launch farms and businesses in their countries
By Emily Fishbein
In this January 30, 2019 photo, Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried speaks at a pre-legislative news conference, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)
May 17, 2019, 8:58 am
Florida agriculture commissioner seeks tech, innovation ideas on Israel trip
Nikki Fried will visit firm that specializes in agricultural drone technology, medical marijuana companies, hydroponics farm and kibbutz with advanced dairy tech
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
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