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Symposium d'Agronomie

"Innovative trends in irrigation"

Day 1: Novembre 27th

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7 Israeli experts and 7 French experts will discuss issues of common interests in water utilization.

8:30-9:00 am: Registration/gathering

09:00-09:30 am: Opening Addresses Chair: Dr. M. Haim President France Israel Foundation

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Mr. xxxx, Presidency of the Hauts de France region

Mr. L Maurer, Ministry of Agriculture, France

Mr. D. Saada, Minister Plenipotentiary Embassy of Israel

Mr. Frederic Puigserver, Director of the legal department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food

09:30-10:00am: Agricultural research in Israel – General overview   

Dr. Shmuel Assouline, Associate Director for International Relations - A.R.O.-Volcani Center, Israel

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10:00-10:30: Hauts de France: Agriculture & Water

Mr. Olivier Dauger, Président de la Chambre d’Agriculture des Hauts de France 

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10:30-11:00: BREAK and DISCUSSIONS

11:00-12:30: Session 1: New Insights in Irrigation Design – Chair: Prof. B. Vandoorne ISA Lille/Yncréa

11:00-11:20  Dr. Shmulik Friedman, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, A.R.O.-Volcani Center, Israel

New concepts in agronomic irrigation design and scheduling

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11:20-11:40 Mme Aïcha Ronceux, Agro-Transfert R&T

Potatoe’s response to water stress and issues on water management in Hauts-de-France

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11:40-12:00  Dr. Nurit Agam, Ben Gurion University, Israel

Below canopy radiation divergence in a vineyard: implications on interrow surface energy balance and soil evaporation

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12:00-12:20  Dr. Pierre Renault – INRA, UMR 1114 EMMAH  Avignon, France

Health risks resulting from the use in irrigation of water contaminated by viruses, impact of irrigation modes.

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12:20-12:30 Questions

12:30-14:00: Lunch and Discussions

14:00-15:30: Session 2: Optimization of IRRIGATION – chair: Dr. Isabelle Cousin, INRA (TBC)

14:00-14:20  Dr. Tamir Kamai, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, A.R.O.-Volcani Center, Israel

Combining between atmospheric demand- and sensor-based irrigation

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14:20-14:40  Dr. Bruno Cheviron Irstea, UMR G-EAU  Montpellier, France

Presentation of different types of irrigation, modeling and optimization perspectives in a context of climate change

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14:40-15:00 Dr. Raphael Linker, Technion – Institute of Technology, Israel

Use of crop-soil-atmosphere dynamic models for (sub-) optimal irrigation management

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15:00-15:20   Mme Sophie Gendre  ARVALIS - Institut du végétal
Irré-LIS®, a decision support tool for irrigation

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15:20-15:40 Mr. Serge Escuraing  CoHRIZE 

Combination of capacitance probes, specific sensors and soil mapping to optimize irrigation and nutrition 

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15:40-15:50 Questions

15:50 -16:20: Break and discussions

16:20-17:50: Session 3: Precision Irrigation – Chair: Dr. Nurit Agam Ben Gourion University

16:20-16:40  Dr. Yafit Cohen,  Institute of Agricultural Engineering, A.R.O.- Volcani Center, Israel

Methodologies to facilitate large-scale adoption of thermal based images as key input in the production of irrigation prescription maps

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16:40-17:00  Dr. Isabelle Cousin,  INRA – Orleans, France

The capacity of the soil to store and return water as a basic parameter for decision support tools in irrigation  

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17:00-17:20  Dr. Offer Rozenstein, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, A.R.O. - Volcani Center, Israel

Developing Models to Estimate Crop Water Consumption based on remote sensing and meteorological data

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17:20-17:40  Prof. Bertrand Vandoorne ISA Lille / Yncréa, France

Use of capacitive probes and sap flow measurements to evaluate the water use efficiency of a tomato crop (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

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17:40-17:50 Questions

17:50-18:00: Closing Remarks

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