Agri-tech visit Netafim Israel

Agri-tech personnel spent three days in Israel earlier this month at Netafim's CMT Headquarters at Kibbutz Magal. The team enjoyed Netafim's First Class hospitality with the added bonus of a brief break from the UK's coldest winter for some years. The purpose of the visit was to receive advanced training on the Irriwise product that the company is actively promoting to its client base. Having used Irriwise for a period of twelve months Managing Director Simon Turner is convinced that this provides tomorrow's technology today, giving Agri-tech and its clients a unique edge over anything else that is available on the worldwide market.

As tends to happen with new concepts, users come up with ideas on how the product could be further developed and perhaps adapted for specific uses. One example of this was to introduce an automatic run-off monitor for soil less growing systems. Whilst in Israel Agri-tech together with the Netafim CMT team, held a brain storming session swapping ideas and discussing further product development. It is important to us as a company explains Simon, that we have full back up and support form the manufacturer and equally as important a listening ear regarding ideas and improvements that could be made. Encouragingly he goes on to explain we have found just that in the CMT team at

Issued 28th January 2009.