Farm Unit staff
The Farm Unit staff of the Model Farm is responsible for operating the agricultural equipment and precision-farming tools, operating the zero-waste system, examining and implementing new technologies, determining for the crop cycle, monitoring and sampling plant material, establishing the infrastructure of the Model Farm and accessibility of knowledge to Israel’s farmers through conferences and tours of the experiments.
Position: Director of the Agricultural Farm Unit -Field crops and orchards, Newe Ya’ar.
Departmental affiliation: Agricultural Farm Unit, Newe-Ya’ar,
Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center.
Phone numbers: 972-50-6220264
Email address: zohar@volcani.agri.gov.il
A personal note:
The Model Farm for Sustainable Agriculture is a challenging and complex project.
These include dozens of experimental plots measuring about 10 dunams, with a total area of about 400 dunams, including a new almond plantation, field crops (wheat, vetch, corn, chickpeas and sunflower) and areas for examining new fodder crops (Moringa , Sesame and more). The project involves dozens of researchers, research engineers and field personnel. At the moment we are busy buying equipment for the model farm and within a year we will begin our experiments. We hope that we will examine, represent and assimilate as many approaches as possible to more sustainable agriculture that will benefit the environment and the farmers of Israel, and even the world.
Mohamed abd alhadi
Position: Agricultural tools operator- Field Crops and Plantations.
Departmental affiliation: Farm Unit staff, Newe-Ya’ar,
Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center.
Phone numbers: 972-50-6220005
Email address: mohamed_abd@hotmail.com
A personal note:
My part in the model farm will be to merge and operate some of the new agricultural tools that we will receive into our work. For example: John Deere 6-145R tractor with a system of automatic steering, a hydraulic beam, a branches crusher with a collection tank, rows cultivator, field cultivator, a 18 m sprayer, compost spreader.
Position: Research Engineer.
Departmental affiliation: Farm Unit staff, Newe-Ya’ar,
Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center.
Phone numbers: 972-54-2171371
Email address: ronenk@agri.gov.il
A personal note:
Preserve and nurture the wealth in the soil, organisms grows in it and the human who works it, by striving towards creating an optimal combination between application of advanced agriculture with deep reference to the environment, and the preservation of nature.
