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For the first time, the United Nations has established an "International Plant Health Day" that will take place today, May 12th. In plants, as in humans, the relationship between good nutrition and health is a well-known fact. Plants will develop better when they are properly nourished and will be...

This week, an enormous strawberry grown in Israel has entered the Guinness Book of Records. Weighing an impressive 289 grams, the strawberry was cultivated using Haifa Group’s unique nutritional products. The strawberry is of the variety 229, developed by Israel's Agricultural Research...

The world understands one of the great challenges ahead remains the need to dramatically increase food crop production to sustain our future global populations. In agriculture, this is not only driving the use of new methods and inputs to help grow crop yields, but also strategies to reduce...

Recently was "Tu Bishvat", the New Year for trees in the Jewish calendar that one of the signs of this day is the almond blossom. The almond is the first deciduous tree to bloom after the winter rains in Israel and is the precursor of spring. For growers this is a sign that the deciduous fruit...

Arable crops are dominating agricultural land worldwide playing a vital role in food production and human nutrition. Although new technologies over Precision Agriculture have been rapidly developed, little have been done towards arable crops nutrition in terms of efficiency and sustainability. In...

Este informe está basado en un ensayo que hemos realizado en un cultivo de pepino tardío, la variedad que observamos concretamente es Valle (Rijk Zwaan) y fue trasplantada el día 4 de noviembre de 2021. Dicha finca se encuentra situada en el paraje conocido como “Tierras de Almería”, dentro del...

  Last week, Prof. Avraham Baniel, a man of great deeds and a brilliant inventor, passed away. Somewhere in the late 1960s, Baniel presented his innovative idea for the creation of potassium nitrate by using potash and pure nitric acid, in order  to...

El año 2021 será recordado, entre otras cosas, por los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos que causaron numerosos daños materiales y personales. Según el reciente informe de la organización benéfica Christian Aid, los 10 desastres climáticos más devastadores en 2021 fueron el huracán Ida (EE.UU...

截止到2020年7月8日，国内“大量元素水溶肥料”的登记证的数量为3375个，而2016年同期该品类国内的登记证数量为1700个，这意味着平均每天有1个以上的“大量元素水溶肥料”登记证产生。水溶肥市场蓬勃发展的同时竞争也日益激烈，各个厂家的产品也让众人眼花缭乱，今天笔者继续与大家分享下在市场上遇到的关于大量元素水溶肥料的问题。     问：大量元素水溶肥结块的原因有哪些？结块后会不会影响肥效？ 答：大量元素水溶肥料由于其自身原料成分的原因，比较容易吸潮结块，主要与原料的形态、吸潮性、含水量、生产环境（湿度）、 产品包材的材质、...

Los fertilizantes que contienen potasio (K) se utilizan a menudo para compensar los déficits de las plantas. Los agricultores deben complementar este nutriente crucial para las plantas cuando los suelos no pueden dar la cantidad de K requerida por los cultivos. La potasa se llama así el número de...