VOLCANI INSTITUTE

About VOLCANI INSTITUTE

Located at the Volcani Center campus in Bet-Dagan, ARO's six institutes are responsible for Plant Sciences, Animal Science, Plant Protection, Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, and Postharvest and Food Sciences. ARO also operates four research stations, in various parts of the country, and serves as a testing center for agricultural produce and equipment. Israel's Gene Bank for Agricultural Crops is also located on the ARO Volcani Center campus. Personnel at ARO includes 190 PhD scientists, 340 engineers and technicians, about 300 graduate students and 50 postdocs and foreign visiting trainees. Close and long-standing relations also hold between ARO researchers and their counterparts in Europe. ARO has been active both in providing direct technical assistance to developing countries, and in providing such assistance in cooperation with various national, regional, international and non-governmental agencies. In this context, Israeli know-how has been exploited for the benefit of farming communities worldwide. ARO maintains particularly close relations with the various international, regional and national institutes involved in the promotion of good agricultural practice and in the increase of agricultural output, and in particular with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).