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1. LR Group – Innovative Agro Industry Website: Contact Person: Ilan Weiss Contact Number: 675-71313468 ISRA ELI AGRO-BUSINESS DELEGATION PROFILE 1. LR Group – Innovative Agro Industry Website: http://lr-group.com/business-line/agriculture/ Contact Person: Ilan Weiss Contact Number: 675-71313468 LR Group is on the forefront of international development, turning vision into ideas, ideas into action, and action into long-term impact. By empowering people, we enable them to fulfill their potential and to make the most of land, skills, and natural resources, thereby helping whole communities thrive. We have established a track-record of prosperous, sustainable projects in more than twenty countries over the last three decades. LR Group has been operating worldwide in the initiation, development, financing, construction, and management of medium and large-scale projects in high growth economies. Our experienced teams specialize in Agriculture, Water, Energy & Power, Telecom, Health, and Construction. The LR Group Engages in Diverse Activities to Strengthen Agricultural Success • Livestock - Raising animals to provide high-quality protein sources. • Field Crops and Grains - Including advanced technologies for farming, irrigation, harvesting and storage. • Protected Agriculture - Year-round growing inside protected structures. • Plantations and Orchards - Medium and large-scale enterprises, producing globally- traded products. • Aquaculture - Fish farming of both fresh water and seawater varieties. • Processing and Value Chain - Processing and marketing of a wide variety of produce WATER 1. NETAFIM Website: www.netafim.com Contact Person: Sam Tidhar Contact Number: 63 917 32 55 118 | +61 418 991 649 About Us Netafim is the global leader in drip and micro irrigation solutions that has created a paradigm shift in low volume irrigation technology. Products and Services Netafim is the global leader in drip and micro irrigation solutions for a sustainable future. With 27 subsidiaries worldwide, Netafim agronomists and engineers deliver optimal solutions to growers in over 110 countries, with 16 manufacturing facilities around the globe and over 3,000 employees. Founded over 45 years ago, Netafim pioneered the drip irrigation revolution that has created a paradigm shift in low volume irrigation technology. Netafim is jointly owned by Permira (a private equity fund), Kibbutz Hatzerim and Kibbutz Magal. The company's annual sales surpassed $751 million in 2013. Netafim is committed to providing a comprehensive service to its customers around the world. By working closely on-site with each customer, the company’s specialists carefully study all relevant factors and the full requirements of the grower. Netafim offers a complete set of solutions drip and micro irrigation customized to grower requirements and crop needs, for diverse climates and terrains worldwide. 3. TAHAL Website: www.tahal.com Contact Person: Ronnen Mor Contact Number: (+972) 52 575 7726 Core Business TAHAL Group is a leading global provider of sustainable infrastructure development projects in developing countries worldwide. Leveraging proven international experience, expert know-how and extensive industry partnerships, TAHAL implements cost-effective solutions that meet and exceed client requirements. Integrated Projects TAHAL uniquely delivers integrated development projects in the water, wastewater, agriculture, solid waste and natural gas segments. Since its establishment in 1952, TAHAL has successfully implemented hundreds of projects for governments, municipalities, public organizations and private corporations in over 60 countries worldwide. End-to-End Services With over 60 years of field-proven engineering expertise, TAHAL is a one-stop provider of end- to-end services. TAHAL takes a holistic approach that covers all stages of the project value chain – including planning, engineering design, financing, supervision, management, construction, implementation, operations and maintenance. Third-Party Financing Building on long-standing relationships with leading global players – including the World Bank, the IDB, the EBRD, the AfDB, and the UN – TAHAL has proven expertise in tailoring financing packages and mobilizing third-party funding. TAHAL helps clients identify relevant financing sources, secure guarantees, and negotiate with commercial banks and export credit agencies. 4. Metzer Website: www.metzer-group.com Contact Person: Avner Ehrlich Contact Number: 668-15656947 Established in 1970, Metzer is a long-standing global group dedicated to developing and manufacturing high quality products for customers worldwide. The company continuously designs, upgrades and produces a wide range of irrigation driplines, PE conduction pipes for water, wastewater and gas, reduced-friction communication pipes, and corrosion-free thermally- insulated SP pipes. Products and Services Cylindrical and Flat, Compensated and Non-Compensated, inline and online Drippers – used mainly for irrigation in agriculture, landscaping and gardening. Designing full irrigation systems for agriculture. SP pipes - designed for plumbing and water at extreme temperatures and pressures. Telecommunication and electric pipes - building high speed production lines for both cylindrical and flat emitters. Experienced in both production and actual application of these products, we are attentive and sensitive to the requirements and requests of local manufacturers of dripper lines and are able to supply the technological solutions and backup needed to successfully compete in their markets. TURNKEY SOLUTIONS 1. AgriTask Website: www.agritask.com Contact Person: Roderick Panchaud Contact Number: (+972) 55 993 3341 We operate as a holistic ag-platform, which integrates multiple agronomic technologies into a Farmers Intelligence Ecosystem. AgriTask correlates between various data layers of ground data, analyses of aerial images, forecast data, and activities that are performed or planned for specific crops, for deeper ag-insights and more educated decision support to all agriculture players. AgriTask has proved its outstanding ability to easily deploy customer friendly solutions that differ significantly in their objectives and market segments. The system is growing with the farmer and his ag-managers, and stimulates them to use more ag-technologies by making technologies, easy accessible to them on one integrative and simple to use platform. Ag-Insurance: AgriTask is offering a fully digital operation system for insurance companies and started developing new tools to better assess agronomic and climatic risk(s) of new and potential insurance clients. If there are connections to ag insurers, we would be happy to connect (independent to the roadshow) 2. Eshet Eilon Website: www.eshet.co.il Contact Person: Menashe Tamir Contact Number: (+972) 54 421 3331 Eshet Eilon is an innovative agricultural equipment developer, established in 1935. Eshet Eilon develops sorting and conveying systems for different products. The company provides turnkey, user friendly solutions for handling fruits and vegetables. The company’s systems manage the entire process – from recieving the product, to dumping, hot water treatment, cleaning, waxing, drying, sorting and grading all the way to packing the products. Eshet Eilon manufactures systems with the latest technologies available, ensuring reliability and high quality service. The company has developed advanced optical systems – exclusive technologies for QA of fruits and vegetables (internal and external defects monitoring).The systems and solutions of Eshet Eilon are developed and designed for a vast veriaty of industries. As a boutique company – Eshet Eilon focuses on building custom-made solutions that fit the client’s specific needs. The company operates in more than 30 countries around the world. 3. Argos (Agri Project) Ltd. Website: www.argosinvest.net Contact Person: Bar Sharon Contact Number: 054-4888653 Argos (Agri Project) LTD is an agricultural technology company that specializes in supplying full kit agricultural greenhouse complexes, tailor-made and turnkey projects. Argos has various formats and structures for a complete greenhouse project. Each fits a specific set of needs. We offer extensive sophisticated projects to larger organization, as well as a family owned concept. Argos supplies all the hardware and equipment needed for a complete working greenhouse project and we assist the local growers with technical and professional advice during and after the construction. The company provides guidance and instruction to growers, including different aspects of growing, farming management, and post harvesting. Large commercial projects are more suited for a government initiative or for a corporation, while the family size greenhouse is suited for a village where the government initiated the project to provide work and food for the local population. In this case, the families (growers) need to be organized in a collective group of growers (cooperative). We have system like this currently running in India, Africa, Central America, Eastern Europe, and other regions worldwide. Products and Services Greenhouse: Ventilation Models for desert, tropical, mediterranean, and light snow weather. Argos All-In-One Greenhouse – Argos rural development projects solution Family tunnel greenhouses- for rural development projects Plantations and vegetable Net House Greenhouse& technology: Soilless Cultivation Nurseries Growing Technologies Climate Control Computerized Systems Irrigation Systems Gravity Irrigation Systems Collapsible water tanks. Technical Support and O.J.T - A professional
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