Agriculture

Featured Article 2018-10-23 11:29

1. Bermad

As a water control solution provider, Bermad offers comprehensive customized solutions for water flow and airflow control and water system management. It is especially excellent at development of automatic hydraulic control valves and air valves, irrigation and fire protection. Established in 1965, the company has a total of 800 employees worldwide. Bermad is committed to development, production and promotion of control valves and air valves driven by automatic diaphragms as well as fluid control management products. As a professional water control solution provider, Bermad has gotten into the Chinese market for nearly 20 years. In the industrial sector, its large projects include the Three Gorges Dam and the Shanghai World Financial Center.

In addition, Bermad’s products have also been applied to fire protection in companies like Dalian Petrochemical Company and Dushanzi Petrochemical Company, and to agricultural irrigation in Xinjiang and Guangxi. 

2. Afimilk

Under Israel’s Afikim Kibbutz Cooperative Community,Afimilk specializes in developing, manufacturing and marketing cutting-edge computerized systems for modern dairy farms. In 1979, Afimilk launched the first electronically-metered milking system in the world. In 1983, the company developed the world’s first computerized dairy management software – AfiFarm. The software integrated Israel’s dairy farming technology into the management system, greatly improving the efficiency of dairy management. In 1984, Afimilk launched the world’s first commercial milk cow oestrus monitoring system.

Since then, the company’s strong R&D team has been working to keep the products up to date. Since its inception in 1977, Afimilk has marketed its products to thousands of dairy farms in more than five countries on five continents. Afimilk has been dedicated to offering cow keepers professional solutions that can increase the yield and quality of milk and help farmers make higher profits.

Since the installation of the first milking machine and the dairy management software at a demonstration dairy farm of Beijing CAG Livestock Development Co. Ltd., Afimilk has provided such machines and systems for more than 600 customers nationwide, including Shanghai Bright Dairy, Inner Mongolia Yili, Mengniu Dairy, Hebei Junlebao Dairy, New Hope Dairy, Heilongjiang Farms and Land Reclamation Administration, Ningxia State Farm, Guangdong Yantang Milk, Xinjiang Western Animal Husbandry, Shengmu High-Tech Milk, Xinjiang Tianrun Dairy, Tianjin Mengde, and Jinan Jiabao Dairy. 

3. NaanDanJain

With a history of 80 years, NaanDanJain is a pioneer in the irrigation industry in Israel. The company provides customers in 116 countries with technologically advanced and cost-effective customized one-stop irrigation solutions. This experienced high-tech company has helped a number of customers increase production while saving resources, thus receiving more returns on less investment. At present, the company has 12 branch companies, 6 international manufacturing plants, and a multinational marketing network that work together to provide services to customers all over the world.

NaanDanJain’s products, including pressure compensated and non-pressure compensated water droppers, drip irrigation pipes and tapes of different wall thickness values, plastic and metal micro sprinklers, sprinklers, and Gavish intelligent fertilizer, can meet the demand of fields, greenhouses, nurseries, orchards, and residential, scenic and residential areas for integrated irrigation and climate control. The company’s professional team, composed of highly experienced agriculturists, designers and technicians, assist the customers in working out effective irrigation solutions based on their requirements, including crop selection, contracting of water diversion projects, development of detailed irrigation solutions, and on-site installation of irrigation systems. 

4. SCR

Established in 1976, SCR is a global leader headquartered in Netanya, Israel that specializes in developing and marketing intelligent solutions for dairy and herd management. It is the world’s first high-tech company to monitor cow’s rumination and provide electronic monitoring equipment. SCR has more than 50% market share in the global intelligent milking area, and its core components have been applied to 90% of milking robots across the industry.

The SCR electronic monitoring collar helps keepers to feed their cows on a healthy diet and judge whether they are in estrus or not, so as to inseminate them at the best time. The sensor-enabled collar collects and uploads data to the cloud database. In addition to the collar, SCR also offers a computer-based analysis system that tracks the complete life cycle of dairy cows, and analyzes milk production as well as reproduction and physical conditions of cows. Such data is uploaded to the cloud database through the cow’s collar, and then is downloaded to the computer for analysis.

Designed for large dairy farms, the collar has powerful features that can increase the capability for managing farms, and simplify and improve decision-making processes in the following areas: reproduction, animal health and welfare, calving, and nutrition.

5. ICL

ICL is Israel’s largest chemical company with headquarters in Tel Aviv. With more than 15,000 employees worldwide, the company specializes in production and sales of fertilizers, industrial products and fine chemicals across the world. In 2012, it had a business volume of more than $7 billion. ICL has the right to exploit a number of mines in the Dead Sea and the Negev Desert of Israel, as well as in Asia, Africa and Europe.

ICL Specialty Fertilizers is the world’s largest producer of specialty fertilizers and also a global leader in efficient agricultural fertilizers, horticultural fertilizers, and lawn fertilizers. As the inventor of the world’s first controlled release fertilizer, the company has a number of top brands of high-efficiency agriculture.

ICL Specialty Fertilizers has a marketing department and a technical team. Based on ICL’s considerable resources and great R&D capabilities, they have been making innovations, developing more product mixes, and provide customers with better products and after-sales services.