Israel will develop a unique information technology center
The new center will assist farmers to incorporate
A group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, led by Amots Hetzroni of the Agricultural Research Organization Volcani Center and their colleagues have won an $200,000 grant for three years from the Ministry of Agriculture to establish and develop an information technology center.
The new center will characterize the existing use of information technology in agriculture, map it and then build a model to incorporate information technology in modern farming and assist farmers in implementing the model.
BGU researchers Gilad Ravid, Lior Fink and Adir Even from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management will be joined by researchers from the Volcani Center, Bar-Ilan University, The Israel Innovation Institute, and the Agam advanced agronomy company.
