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נשיא ומנכל נטפים גבי מיודובניק

Israel's Netafim offers rice farmers an alternative to flooding their paddies

15.12.20|Reuters
Demand for rice is expected to rise 25% by 2050 and rice paddies leave too big a footprint, says director of U.N.-backed Sustainable Rice Platform
ישראל טלפז וגיא מורגנשטרן מייסדי SeeTree

SeeTree completes $30 million series B to expand tree intelligence service

08.12.20|Meir Orbach
“Our vision is to enable the ‘Tree-Farming 4.0 Revolution’ with the Intelligence-per-Tree that we provide,” says CEO
ויקראם שרוף Vikram Shroff יו"ר UPL כנס אמירויות

UPL director optimistic about potential agritech collaborations between Israel and UAE

02.11.20|CTech
The company’s director shares some of his predictions about the countries and any role they might play together
נטאשה זנגין נספחת כלכלית ניו דלהי

The age of Zoom has helped speed up tech deals between Israel and India

30.10.20|Allon Sinai
The prices there may be lower, but India’s sheer market size makes it worth it for Israeli companies, says Israeli trade rep to New Delhi
חוות גידול קנאביס חברת בטר 2

Agri-tech R&D partnership Smart Agro raises over $7.5 million in Tel Aviv IPO

29.10.20|Hezi Sternlicht
"Despite the challenging times, the IPO and the demand show that the Israeli public believes in Israeli agri-tech," said Smart Agro CEO Omri Rothman
רחפן קוטף תפוחים של חברת תבל ארובוטיקס טכנולוג'יס

Fruit-picking drone company raising $20 million to begin manufacturing

27.10.20|Tzally Greenberg
Tevel Aerobotics says demand for its AI-powered flying robot pickers has increased as fewer human workers are available
Tomer Tzach CEO CropX

Irrigation giant Reinke partners with Israel’s CropX to offer farmers precision solutions

17.08.20|Meir Orbach
Farmers who use Reinke's ReinCloud extended cloud app will be able to remotely run their irrigation system while managing CropX system data through the integrated platform
מפעל נטפים מוסף קיבוץ חצרים

Drip irrigation pioneer Netafim lands $85 million contract in India

10.08.20|Golan Hazani
The deal will see Netafim provide irrigation systems to 35,000 farmers, growing diverse crops on some 500 square kilometers in 66 villages in the state of Karnataka in southwest India
כנס אוכל וטכנולוגיה 23.4.18 אווירה אנשים

Where FoodTech meets the plate: The 11 finalists of Calcalist's Food Innovation Contest

02.08.20|Maayan Manela
From fruit-picking robots to food waste reduction AI, these companies are at the cutting edge of solutions the world is starving for
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From Earth to Mars, New Agtech Developments Bring New Regulatory Hurdles

30.05.20|Dov Greenbaum
As farming IoT devices become the new norm, new regulations are required to protect farmers’ trade secrets while allowing them to migrate between technologies
מוסף שבועי 5.3.20 תמר מגהול

Black Gold: How One Variety of Dates Took Over a Billion Shekels Industry

13.03.20|Ari Libsker
The Medjool date is the biggest, sweetest, most visually appealing variety of the fruit, and its rising popularity means more and more Israeli growers are uprooting more traditional, subtler types of palms to make room for the new king of the industry
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Precision Agriculture Is the Agtech Word of the Day

05.03.20|Sophie Shulman
There are some 1,600 global agtech startups, all are focused on one goal—maximizing profit for the farmers by improving efficiency, boosting yield, and cutting costs
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Israel Chemicals Acquires Precision Agriculture Company Growers Holdings

19.02.20|Adi Pick
North Carolina-based Growers develops technology that collects and turns manual and machine-generated farm data into planting and fertilization recommendations, aiming to generate higher agricultural yields
מנכ"ל חברת אדמה חן ליכטנשטיין

Adama CEO Named CFO of Parent Company Syngenta Group

05.01.20|Tzally Greenberg
Chen Lichtenstein was appointed CEO of the Israeli pesticide manufacturer in 2014; Adama was in 2017 acquired by ChemChina, whose agricultural assets merged with Sinochem to form Syngenta
קנאביס רפואי מריחואנה כנס כלכליסט

Canada’s Cronos Starts Growing First Cannabis Seedlings on Israeli Soil

13.11.19|Tzally Greenberg
The Nasdaq and Toronto-listed cannabinoid company signed a partnership with northern Israeli Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in 2017
אופיר ארדון מנכ"ל Agritask

Agriculture Management Startup AgriTask Raises $8.5 Million

05.11.19|Adi Pick
AgriTask’s service combines data from multiple sources to offer farmers and agricultural insurers soil management and insights on more than 50 different types of crops
מוסף שבועי 17.10.19 איל דשא רחפן שקוטף תפוחים

The Apple Doesn't Fall

25.10.19|Sophie Shulman
After his brother died, Israeli businessman and former Teva executive Eyal Deshe stepped up to lead his apple-picking drone startup, and discovered the joy of being a hungry entrepreneur
עץ בננות

Israeli Hackathon to Tackle Pressing Needs of Kibbutzim, Like What to Do With Banana Waste

22.09.19|Adi Pick
In October, 120 participants will partake in a 44-hour hackathon in northern Israel to offer solutions for various agricultural and environmental issues
תירס Corn אבוג'ן Evogene

Genetic Crop Design Company Evogene Amends Bayer Collaboration Agreement

17.07.19|Hezi Sternlicht
Israel-based Evogene uses computational predictive biology to develop novel crop strains and pesticides in a variety of domains, including agricultural chemicals and human microbiome-based therapeutics
מוסף שבועי 30.5.19 דנא רן מידן מנכל נטפים

Netafim Signs $14 Million Irrigation Deal in Tanzania

12.06.19|Golan Hazani
The company will provide irrigation to 20 square kilometers of sugarcane grown by a subsidiary of Tanzania-based conglomerate Bakhresa Group
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