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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
Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has developed a drone that it hopes will help farmers do labor-intensive fruit-picking (Courtesy)
April 29, 2019, 1:29 pm
Startup says time is ripe for fleets of drones to help farmers pick fruit
Israel’s Tevel develops an autonomous flying machine that can harvest fruit carefully and quickly, countering a growing shortage of farmhands
By Federico Maccioni
Avi Gilbert, left, and Menachem Simon harvest microgreen crops at Hillel Academy Jewish day school of Dayton, Ohio, March 7, 2019. (Marshall Weiss/Dayton Jewish Observer)
April 2, 2019, 11:35 pm
Ohio day school students farm microgreens through project with Israeli roots
An indoor farming initiative teaches fifth- and sixth-graders key skills, melds science with Jewish values related to food justice, and partners them with kids in the Jewish state
By Marshall Weiss
A healthy palm tree in Raanana, Israel (PlantArcBio)
November 4, 2018, 3:09 pm
New biological pesticide can kill deadly palm-eating beetle, startup says
Israel’s PlantArcBio says it has developed a pesticide with ‘100% efficacy’ to fight the deadly red palm weevil that attacks trees around the world
By Shoshanna Solomon
Alon Tal
May 6, 2018, 2:43 pm
Alon Tal
Farewell to drip irrigation and cherry tomatoes
Such signature Israeli innovations will become fewer and further between due to shortsighted funding cuts
13-year-old Shira Futornick, center, with some of the AICAT graduates on Thursday, June 15, 2017. (Courtesy Arava)
June 20, 2017, 11:35 pm
This bat mitzvah girl raised $50,000 for Israel’s foremost environmental school
Shira Futornick launches into adulthood with a campaign to help students from developing countries learn sustainable farming at the Arava center
By Yaakov Schwartz
AclarTech's app enables users to assess quality and freshness of produce (Courtesy)
May 29, 2017, 2:25 pm
Fruit-pinching out as new app tests for freshness
With AclarTech’s sensor and database, farmers can assess and monitor quality and ripeness of produce in the field
By Shoshanna Solomon
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas poses for the family photo, during the 28th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on January 30, 2017. (AFP/ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER)
January 30, 2017, 10:47 pm
Abbas to Africa: Put Palestinian plight ahead of forging ties with Israel
Speaking at summit in Ethiopia, PA leader accuses Israel of doing all it can to undermine two-state solution
By Dov Lieber
Delegates from West Africa at an agricultural conference in Israel, December 5, 2016 (courtesy Mashav)
December 5, 2016, 12:26 pm
African ministers in Israel for first-ever agricultural summit
Top officials from 13 West African states come to Jerusalem to discuss sustainable productivity in arid and semi-arid regions
By Raphael Ahren
An EdenShield GateKeeper system (Courtesy)
April 19, 2016, 7:07 pm
Bayer to invest $10 million in Israeli ag tech fund
The international pharmaceutical giant aims to shape the future of agriculture partnering with accelerator firm
By David Shamah
Trendlines executives and board directors at the IPO of Trendlines Group in Singapore, November 12, 2015 (Courtesy)
January 27, 2016, 7:28 pm
Singapore a short-cut to China, say visiting officials
Sometimes smaller is better – and Israeli companies can find a foothold in China’s biggest markets via one of Asia’s smallest countries, says Singaporean business executives
By David Shamah
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