Vegetables & Field Crops Group
Contact: Dr. David Cohen
Tel: 972-4-6953538, 972-51-513417 davidc@migal.org.il
Agenda
- Raising returns from existing vegetables and field crops
- Development of new vegetables and field crops
- Development of mechanization in main crops
- Solving plant protection problems in main vegetables and field crops
- Improving efficiency in water use of vegetables and field crops
Ongoing R&D Projects
- Technologies for acclimation of the wild Gundelia plant as a commercial crop.
- Technologies for acclimation of sweet potatoes as a crop in the lowlands.
- Technologies for acclimatization of herbs and spices.
- Know how of the characterization of watermelon and sunflower wilting caused by fungus, and methods of control.
- Technologies for combining pesticides for the control of pests and diseases in industrial tomatoes.
- Technologies for the control of mildew and Peronospora in peas and watermelons.
- Technologies for the control of Orobanche in industrial tomatoes.
- Technologies for the control of Rhyzocatonia in autumn beans.
- Technologies for the control of weeds in edible tomatoes.
- Know how regarding coping with tobacco moth in cultivation of seedless watermelon.
- Technologies for cultivation of quality bell pepper under netting.
- Technologies for cultivation of strawberry as new crop for the mountains.
- Technologies for preventative spraying on travelling irrigation lines to save manpower and also spraying near water sources.
- Technologies for examination the involvement of Fusarium in collapse of sweet corn fields.
- Know how of identification and treatment of thrips.
- Know how of the influence of dipping and desiccation of garlic cloves.
- Technologies for mechanization of onion harvest.
- Development of model farms of mechanized onions.
- Know how of monitoring scale moth on tobacco.
- Technologies for phyto monitoring system in industrial tomatoes.
- Know how of prevention of bleaching in onion straw.
- New technologies for post harvest of onions.
- Technologies for weed control in industrial tomatoes and onions.