H5N1 bird flu was diagnosed in a flock of turkeys in Nahalal in the Jezreel Valley. Following an unusual mortality of approximately 24,000 turkeys, before marketing at the age of 16 weeks, in five poultry houses, samples were sent to the laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food S
Bird flu - H5N1 avian influenza - was discovered in two additional locations in the Sharon region. The veterinary services at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security have defined a quarantine zone of up to 10 km from the infected chicken coops.
H5N1 bird flu was detected in a turkey fattening coop in Moshav Kfar Vitkin, near Netanya. The disease was detected in six coops, including approximately 19,000 12-week-old turkeys.
Seven teams will formulate the overall national plan, and they include representatives from all the relevant government ministries, among them - the local agriculture team, the import team, the food industry team, the food basket team, the consumption habits team, the R&D and innovation
Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security will support investments in "aquaculture" (the breeding, raising, and harvesting of fish, shellfish, and aquatic plants) in the amount of approximately 10 million Shekels (USD 2.65 million). The support will be given proportionally to the ma
According to the calculation of the costs of the actions recommended in the protocol, the cost of the initial restoration of the land is between 1,000 and 2,000 Shekels (USD 272 - USD 544) per dunam (1/4 acre/1,000 square meters) acre/and in some cases up to 3,000 Shekels (USD 816), dependin
This includes rehabilitation of agricultural roads, construction and repair of irrigation pipelines, end-to-end solutions for handling agricultural waste, planning and upgrading livestock buildings and more.