What is BENEFIT

Precision Agriculture (PA) is a whole-farm management approach using innovative technologies such as ICT, satellite positioning (GNSS) data, remote sensing, proximal data gathering, etc. These technologies have the goal of optimizing returns on inputs whilst potentially reducing environmental impacts.Moreover, the agricultural sector is an important driver in the Palestinian economy since it creates job opportunities…

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Management

Description: ​ Lead Organization: Al Quds Open University 1.     OVERVIEW OF BENEFIT PROJECT Agriculture sector in Palestine carries both economic and political importance.  According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (2013), this sector is employed about 11,5% of the labour force. Further, the agriculture income represents 5,6% of the gross domestic product (GDP) and accounts…

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Mooc Meeting Between QOU team and AL-Istiqlal University team

على جانب اللقاءات الدورية بين الجامعات الفلسطينية الشريكة في مشروع BENEFIT، تم اليوم ١٠/١٠/٢٠٢٢ عقد لقاء في جامعة الاستقلال بين فريق من جامعة القدس المفتوحة برئاسة دكتور عزيز سلامة مدير المشروع وعضوية السيدة صبا فرحانة والسيدة رندة عبد الحي. وفريق جامعة الاستقلال برئاسة دكتور وليد خليلية مدير فريق جامعة الاستقلال في المشروع وعضوية دكتور حازم…

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Mahmoud Rahil

Mahmoud Rahil, Associate Professor Personal information: Date and place of birth:              1975 / Al-Faraa Camp – Jenin – Palestine Social status:                               Married Nationality:                                  Palestinian   Permanent address:                  Al-faraa Camp, Jenin – Palestine   For contact:                                Voice: 0599-097842 E-mail: mrahail@yahoo.com   Educational background:   Ph.D. in Wastewater Reuse and Management – Faculty of Agriculture– Aristotle University…

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فريق “القدس المفتوحة” لمشروع الزراعة الدقيقة في فلسطين يجتمع مع الجامعات الشريكة 

فريق “القدس المفتوحة” لمشروع الزراعة الدقيقة في فلسطين يجتمع مع الجامعات الشريكة    اجتمع طاقم إدارة جامعة القدس المفتوحة الخاص بمشروع “الزراعة الدقيقة في فلسطي

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Quality Assurance

​Lead Organization: Institute of Technology and Business in  Czech Republic   Prepared by VSTE Team: Marta Harničárová, Jan Valíček Copyright © Copyright 2020 BENEFIT Consortium Consisting of Al-Quds Open University (QOU, Palestine), Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie (PTUK, Palestine), Slovenská Poľnohospodárska Univerzita v Nitre (SUA, Slovakia), Panepistimio Patron (UPAT, Greece), Vysoká Škola Technická a Ekonomická v…

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Installation of AgriLive System at PTUK farm

One of the most important outputs of this project for PTUK concerns for purchasing and installation of advanced devices (soil moisture and temperature sensors, nitrogen soil sensors, phosphorus soil sensors, and potassium soil sensors) that will be used on the university farm to enhance students and researchers to increase their knowledge and science, as these…

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A technical Training Workshop on Smart Farming at Al-Istiqlal University in Jericho, Palestine

At the invitation and initiative of the “Boosting Innovation in Education and Research of Precision Agriculture in Palestine” BENEFIT project team at Al-Istiqlal University, a technical training was held on March 16th,2022 by Snipe for the AgriLive system supplied by the BENEFIT project with the support of the European Union ERASMUS +. The AgriLive platform…

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