Vegetable and field crops farming 2016-2017 New - LAO
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of vegetable production in modern farms while achieving high yields and high-quality products.
Syllabus:
- Introduction of vegetable growth in Israel.
- Irrigation and fertilization in vegetable.
- Irrigation, fertilization and climate control monitoring.
- Plant protection in vegetable growth.
- Vegetable growth in greenhouses.
- Vegetable growth in the open field.
- Industrial vegetable growth.
- Compression between vegetable growth in Israel and vegetable growth in the students' home countries.
Agricultural Economics - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study the main issues related to the Agricultural Economics and the importance in agriculture and farm management.
Syllabus:
- Course of Excel.
- Introduction to Economy.
The basic problem: Scarcity of resources.
Capital Budgeting and Financial & Aspect of Project Evaluation
The value of money or the interest rate is the price of using money
Present value - PV
Future value – FV
Capital recovery, Loan payment
Project evaluation according to :present value ,future value ,benefit
cost ratio. - Cost of Production Analysis.
Fixed cost, variable cost, direct and indirect cost.
Short-run and long-run considerations. - The budget.
Breakeven point.
Sensitivity analysis Enterprises.
Partial budget.
The whole farm budgeting. - Business Plan
Preparing a Business Plan
Parameters of profitability: NPV, IRR, How many years are required to recover the investment.
Principles of modern irrigation - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
To learn basic principles of modern irrigation management. Included in these basics, are topics covering the latest inventions of localized irrigation technologies, among these:
Fundamentals of soil-water relations; hydraulics; evapo-transpiration and irrigation scheduling; economics and irrigation efficiency; agricultural sprinkler, and drip irrigation technologies; fertigation and chemigation; water quality and filtration.
The major objectives of the Course pretend to teach the student to set-up practical and efficient irrigation systems that can improve crop productivity and profitability, minimize water use, and protect natural resources.
Syllabus:
- Micro Irrigation: Definitions, Components, Classification of Micro-emitters, Micro-jets, Micro-sprinklers, Spreaders and Swivels, Water distribution patterns, Application rate, number of emitters in a lateral.
- Drip Irrigation: definition, Drippers classification, Water passage dimensions, Layout of drip irrigation systems, Water and salts distribution patterns, Regulated drippers.
- Sprinkler Irrigation, components, Advantages and disadvantages, Definitions, Spacing - Precipitation rate, Sprinkler types, Rotating impact sprinkler (Hammer), Nozzles, Irrigation Uniformity, Water distribution pattern.
- Filtration: impurities in water, Water analysis, Filtration definition, Mechanical filtration. Filter types, Filters maintenance.
- Automation: the latest technologies facilitating the operator the minimum manual intervention, and their justification.
Preparation for Research project - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study the main issues related to research in Agriculture.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to experimental research in Agriculture.
- Design of research study at the host farm.
- Scientific writing.
- Writing a research proposal.
- Data collection.
- Data analysis: basic statistical tools, correlation plots, trend lines.
- Using Excel to generate graphs and for data analysis.
- Writing a final report.
- Principles of presentation: performing in front of audience, the correct structure of the slides, generating clear slides and the use of PowerPoint.
Plant Protection - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course introduces to the student advanced and environmental friendly methods of controlling pests and diseases.
Syllabus:
- IPM \ ICM principles
- IPM methods
- Plant protection methods
- Quarantine pest
- Horticulture means as tools for Plant Protection techniques (pruning, thinning, irrigation, nutrition).
- Med-Fly as a model pest for IPM means.
- Mating distraction – an IPM technique.
- Biological control
- Chemical treatments (Friendly chemicals) include MRL, LD50.
Vegetable and field crops farming - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of vegetable production in modern farms while achieving high yields and high-quality products.
Syllabus:
- Introduction of vegetable growth in Israel.
- Irrigation and fertilization in vegetable.
- Irrigation, fertilization and climate control monitoring.
- Plant protection in vegetable growth.
- Vegetable growth in greenhouses.
- Vegetable growth in the open field.
- Industrial vegetable growth.
- Compression between vegetable growth in Israel and vegetable growth in the students' home countries.
Fruit trees Farming - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of fruit tree farming in modern farms while achieving high yields and high-quality products.
Syllabus:
- General principles in horticulture using examples of the Israeli orchards agriculture.
- Planning a fruit crop industry: growing conditions, sensitivities, varieties, storage protocols.
- The importance of rootstocks.
- Phonology of fruit crops.
- Intensification of fruit crops maximization of yield, fruit size and fruit quality, conventional
- And high density orchards, principles for luminosity maintenance.
- Irrigation using vegetative parameters vs climatic parameters. Fixed and variable irrigation Volume.
- Managing of a fruit crop plantation: irrigation and pruning strategy.
- Maximization of yield by manipulations: the use of plant growth regulators.
- Pollination as a limiting factor.
- Canopy management.
- Orchard design. Fruit tree machinery.
International standards and sustainability - Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study the main issues related to the international standards and their importance in agriculture.
Syllabus:
- The need for standards: What standard is, Consumption chain and involved parties, what the customers want, why it changed (World Trends), Development of standards.
- Types of standards: Universal vs. local/specific buyer (who defines), Generic vs. checklist (how defined), Division by main issue of interest (what required), Accordance to stage in production (where required).
- Main instruments for standard implementation: Risk analyses, documented procedures instructions, Traceability, Competence and training, Infrastructures control, Records, Complaint management and corrective actions, Internal audits self-assessment, Data analyses.
- Short review of standard’s requirements: Global GAP, ISO 9001, BRC.
Handling Argicultural Products in Post - Harvest Lao 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course teaches advanced methods and techniques of handling agricultural products starting from harvesting, packing, storing and, marketing while maintaining a high quality of the product and preventing disease and deterioration.
Syllabus:
- Introduction + postharvest losses+ Controlled and Modified Atmosphere.
- Temperature management
- Ethylene and ripening.
- Postharvest pathology.
- Postharvest of tropical fruits.
- Harvest indices.