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.