INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE
Protocols and Methods
WHAT ARE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE INTEGRATED AGRICULTURE INSTITUTE?
The foundation of the IAI is to combine the data on a specific crop into a protocol growth.
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The protocols use traditional techniques and knowledge with the most sophisticated state of the art methods. Each line in the protocol represents a tested practice that has proved to be the most effective and environmentally friendly.
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A protocol is developed and adjusted to every crop, soil, and grower. A small farmer with some machinery and a small stuff will benefit from the protocol and will be more profitable. Large producers increase cost-effectiveness by using precise and accurate methods.
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Photo above: Yualin Organic Farm, Henan Province, China
WHAT ARE THE PROTOCOLS?
Each of our protocols consists of:
Water and fertilize precise control
Activation of plant resistance mechanisms
Nutrition foliar supplements
Biological control
Chemical control
Organic soil supplements
Mechanic and physical treatment
The idea behind the protocols is that details are important and that precision is the key. A combination of procedures and methods is designed to achieve a healthy crop for the consumer and a safe working environment for the farmer.
The protocol is profitable due to the reduction of materials and treatments. The combination of methods gives the best possibilities for addressing major agriculture problems and goals. the protocol is easy to read, understand and implement.
THE BASICS
Water is the most important issue and in Israel, it is the highest expense after labor. The methods we use are both in the accurate zone and precision and controlled with wireless tensiometer and with Infra Red imaging technology from satellite and cameras.
Fertilize as an essential substance is important not just for crop yield but also for crop protection. From our perspective, a fungus or an aphid attack on a plant is an indicator for a disorder of fertilization of the plant.
In some soils and plants, certain nitrogen has to change because of plant protection necessity and this is a complicated system because it depends not just upon the crop and pathogen but also on the soil.
Usually, a farmer sees a pathogen and disease and he assumes that the disease was air born or soil born and that the first interaction is random without rules. The most common way to control the pest is by spraying it with poison either organic or chemical.
We have found that in many vegetables edible trees and herbs, plant disease can be controlled with fertilizing spray and parallel to that there are ways to activate plant resistance pathways.
Plant defense mechanisms
The plant has various means to protect itself, including activation of internal pathways. The first is the Hypersensitive response HR and the second is Systemic Acquired Resistance. Both mechanisms are well described in the literature and are known for more than 50 years. The use of these mechanisms in the field especially with devastating pathogens is rare. The common treatment uses with poison, in both organic and conventional agriculture practices.
Our protocol uses these mechanisms to activate the pathways and give plants a head- start to respond to pathogens and disease. Our protocol takes a 50 year of scientific knowledge and converts it to practical agriculture simple methodology.
Integration
Basically, the protocol combines methods derived from the organic agriculture practice with conventional and old ones. We can fertilize the crop with algae just like the Romans did and watch the leaf irradiation with IR technology thousands of miles away, with satellite technology. We can spray with activators to elicit plant resistance mechanisms parallel to targeting the pathogen with a substance directly.