Ecuador
Field Crops and Irrigation Project
Follow-up visits of Israeli experts were held for this project, which was active 1995-1999. The project promoted the development of irrigation and crop production in the Peninsula de Santa Elena in southwestern Ecuador through management of three experimental research stations. The project developed a network of extension experts and commercial companies and provided extensive training activities.
El Salvador
Dairy Cattle Husbandry
The approach of the project is based on a system of agricultural extension with dissemination of appropriate technologies such as supplying feed such as forage, silage and grains throughout the year and particularly during the six months of the dry season; milking technologies and equipment; reduction of heat stress and computerized system for maintenance of dairy cattle farms.
The project is accompanied by a resident Israeli expert charged with providing onsite training and introducing new technologies and methods in dairies throughout El Salvador.
Extension and dissemination are carried out by a unit comprised of 12 engineers, of whom eight were trained in Israel. 120 milking dairy farms with 40 - 4000 milking cows per farm, are involved in the project. The average milk yield since the beginning of the project had risen from 2,000 liters per year per cow to 7,500 liters.
The project team also organizes conferences, courses and follow-up training in El Salvador and in neighboring countries. The project is in cooperation with the El Salvadoran Ministry of Agriculture, the National Center for technology of Agriculture and the Forestry (CENTA), the Department for Animal Husbandry and USAID.
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