This is the main reason why you should buy blue and white products

• Published date: 14 March 2024
• Author: IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GALIL COMPANY
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

From the founding of the state to the present day, Israeli agriculture has been a source of national pride. It was not only the fact that the farmers blossomed the wilderness, drained swamps and built farms out of nothing, but also the Israeli uniqueness in which small units of land succeeded and still succeed to this day in yielding enormous produce

To this must be added the wide variety: unlike other countries in the world that focus on a number of main crops according to the local climate conditions, in Israel you can find most types of agricultural crops, and this against the background of its climatic and topographic diversity that includes high and cold areas, desert areas and temperate areas adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea.

Israeli agriculture began to develop at the end of the 19th century and even though many years have passed since then, even today agriculture does not stand still and delegations from all over the world come to learn how Israeli dairy farms manage to produce maximum amounts of milk, and the magic secret of desert agriculture. But as we know, not everything is rosy and due to the frequent social and technological changes, traditional agriculture has been shrinking over the years. "The agricultural sector is currently estimated at only about 8,000 agricultural farms, most of them large and medium-sized," notes Yeftah Ortal, CEO of Galil Shok Local, one of the leading companies in Israel for marketing agricultural produce. "This number was double or even higher just 20 years ago, and the decrease in The economy is due to various factors such as the global climate crisis, the massive construction that reduces the cultivation areas, the expensive cost of water, the difficulty in obtaining working hands in agriculture and the heavy taxes imposed on those involved in the industry," he explains.

The number of farms did decrease, but the product remained the same, what's the problem with that?

"It is true that the scope of agricultural production was not affected as a result of the reduction in the number of agricultural farms, but it should be understood that the active farmers today face quite a few challenges, and the state needs to understand this and incentivize them in order to ensure the country's nutritional security.

We saw the importance of this in the Corona crisis and we see This is even today, when Israel is almost in a regional war with various boycotts and import difficulties. It should also be remembered that since the...