Sustainable Agriculture - Tel-Hai 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course enables you to study the main issues related to sustainable agriculture.
Syllabus:
- Introduction to organic and sustainable agriculture.
- Food production and environmental costs.
- Biodiversity in agriculture ecosystems.
- The economics of sustainable horticultural production.
- Genetically modified (or engineered) organisms.
- What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
- Precision agriculture.
- Confronting water scarcity.
- Biofuels and agriculture.
- Sustainable animal farming.
- Extensive vs. Intensive animal farming approaches.
- Organic livestock.
- Animal waste management.
Plant Protection - Tel-Hai 2016-2017
Course Summary:
This course introduces to the student advanced and environmental friendly methods of controlling pests and diseases.
Syllabus:
- • Introduction - Different approaches & practices in relation to pest management pres. no. 1
- • IPM principles & applications - Control of insects & arthropods in apple orchards pres. no. 2
- • IPM programs for diseases in apple orchards & banana groves pres. no. 3
- • IWM – Integrated weed management: chemicals. &GMO’s pres. no. 4
- • The Bt trade, GMO advantages and constrains pres. no. 5
- • IPM in green houses pres. no. 6.
- • Crop nutrition and induced resistance: SAR & biopesticides pres. no. 7 & 8 .
Preparation for Research project - Tel-Hai 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.
Principles of modern irrigation - Tel-Hai 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.
Vegetable and field crops farming - Tel-Hai 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.
Handling Argicultural Products in Post - Harvest Tel-Hai 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.
Fruit Trees Farming - Tel-Hai 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.
Agricultural Economics - Tel-Hai 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.