Agricultural Skills Development
Programme Structure
We would like to suggest a 3 weeks programme that will include different topics: the participants will gain from this programme the capacity to start and maintain different business activities in the agricultural field.
Galillee International Management Institute (GIMI) graduates are expected to return to their home countries, communities and institutions with applicable knowledge and problem-solving skills. The programme will include lectures and study tours.
Excursions to historical relevant sites will be organized during the week-end.
Curriculum
- The Israeli Agriculture
- Project Management for Small Farmers
- Rural Development and the Youth involvement –the Israeli Model
- The farmer as a manager
- Value addition of farming nature
- Small farmers businesses
- Milk and Dairy production
- Cattle health issues
- Study tour in dairies and dairy work. Including goats and sheep herds
- Intensive Aquaculture production
- Preparing Aquaculture projects
- Visit to aquaculture production in ponds
- Production in small family plantations
- Family Irrigation Systems
- Study tour to irrigated fields and plantations
- Modern Poultry production
- Poultry production for meat
- Study tour to poultry farm
- Study tour to piggery
- Small Ruminant health
- poultry production for eggs
- Field crops –corn, vegetables, beans, sorghum, sweet potatoes, potatoes. water melon
- Finance of a Small farm
- Change management
- The use of Agriculture Machinery
- Management in field crop production