Search Results for: Netafim

4 Global Cleantech companies

Posted on March 5, 2017

Four Israeli companies were named in the 2017 Global Cleantech 100. Israel’s BreezoMeter, Kaiima, TaKaDu, and Netafim are among the top 100 companies picked (from a list of 9,900) by Cleantech Group as poised to make significant market impact within … Continue reading →

Posted in Science & Technology | Leave a comment

Buying into irrigation in Costa Rica

Posted on November 13, 2016

Israel’s Netafim has acquired 60% of the Costa Rican irrigation company RyM. It will become part of Netafim Central America and help bolster Netafim’s status in the region, while targeting states such as Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador. … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy & Business | Leave a comment

Drip irrigation to save mushroom industry

Posted on July 31, 2016

Israeli water specialist Netafim has developed Mushroom Master – the world’s first drip irrigation system for mushrooms.  It reduces reliance on expensive heavy peat casing soil to hold large amounts of water.  Underground irrigation also avoids bacterial infestation. http://www.israel21c.org/israeli-watering-system-offers-hope-to-troubled-mushroom-industry/

Posted in Science & Technology | Leave a comment

Saving the world from hunger

Posted on July 24, 2016

This NoCamels article features nine Israeli companies who are making major contributions to agriculture through their innovative technology.  These are Sensilize, BioBee, miRobot, Roots, Tal-Ya, Morflora, Netafim, GreenWall and EdenShield. http://nocamels.com/2016/07/israeli-agtech-startups-agriculture-technology/

Posted in Science & Technology | Leave a comment

Drip irrigation for Paraguay

Posted on July 15, 2016

Israel has delivered 13 drip irrigation systems from Israel’s Netafim to farmers in San Pedro, Paraguay.  It is part of the “Family Drip System” plan led by Paraguayan agronomist Edgar Figueredo, a graduate of Mashav – Israel’s Agency for International … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel is Inclusive & Global | Leave a comment

Agro-tech delegation to the Philippines

Posted on May 1, 2016

An Israeli delegation to the Philippines is promoting irrigation technology to cut costs and make water use by farmers more efficient. The companies are Agrotop, Bermad, BioFishency, Eshet Eilon, Metzerplas Cooperative, Netafim, ShneorSeed, and Tefen Flow and Dosing Technologies. www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Economy&title=israeli-agriculture-firms-promoting-more-efficient-irrigation&id=125322

Posted in Economy & Business | Leave a comment

US ranch to grow rice with Israeli irrigation

Posted on March 27, 2016

The 17,000 acre Conaway Ranch in Woodland, California will be the first US rice grower to use Israeli drip irrigation.  The Conaway Preservation Group is partnering with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research and Israel’s Netafim. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science & Technology | Leave a comment

Cleaner water

Posted on January 17, 2016

Israel’s Amiad has opened its first UK office, in Swansea – home of Welsh Water, to support increasing demand in the UK and Europe. Also, Israeli irrigation specialists Netafim has signed an exclusive distribution agreement to market Amiad’s Arkal product … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy & Business | Leave a comment

The water will flow from Jerusalem

Posted on August 2, 2015

A delegation from California governor Jerry Brown came to Jerusalem Institute’s Milken Financial Innovations Lab to learn how best to alleviate California’s severe drought. They heard from Israeli water companies Arad, Ayyeka, Emefcy, Miya, Netafim, RealiteQ, and Takadu and others. … Continue reading →

Posted in Science & Technology | Leave a comment

The business of conserving water

Posted on June 14, 2015

Recent article in The Atlantic entitled “Selling the Desert’s Water-Conservation Lessons to the Rest of the World” It describes the reasons for the success of Israel’s Netafim, with its irrigation system that can grow plants with much less water. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/netafim-israel-water-conservation-irrigation-desert/393722/

Posted in Economy & Business | Leave a comment