Agriculture Technology : Israeli Technology for Agriculture to Increase Crop Production

The Maharashtra government has decided to work with Israeli government's agriculture department to learn about and adopt advance agriculture technology and increase crop production in the state.

Israel will set up six excellence centres across the state to do research on orange, mango pomegranate and among other fruits. The research centre for banana will be set at Jalgaon.

It will help our farmers make use of technology. Israel does not have its own soil or water. Still, they are number one agricultural crop production. Currently state is facing a severe shortage of water. So the Israeli technology will help to get maximum yield with minimum use of water.

State government will work in coordination with the agriculture department of Israel. Many farmers delegations have been visiting Israel to study technology. Now we have decided to organise such tours in large numbers at government level, said agriculture minister Eknath Khadse.

Source: http://www.dnaindia.com