Post - Harvest 2024 - 2025
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 2024- 2025
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.
Plant Protection 2024 - 2025
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 2024 - 2025
<p></p><p><strong>Course Summary:</strong></p><p>This course enables you to study basic methods and techniques of vegetable production in modern farms while achieving high yields and high-quality products.</p><p><strong> Syllabus:</strong></p><ul><li>Introduction of vegetable growth in Israel.</li><li>Irrigation and fertilization in vegetable.</li><li>Irrigation, fertilization and climate control monitoring.</li><li>Plant protection in vegetable growth.</li><li>Vegetable growth in greenhouses.</li><li>Vegetable growth in the open field.</li><li>Industrial vegetable growth.</li><li>Compression between vegetable growth in Israel and vegetable growth in the students' home countries.</li></ul><br><p></p>
Principles of modern irrigation - English - 2024-2025
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.