In this workshop we have presented agricultural research, new technologies to implement and methodologies to farmers. There was a focus on orchards’ handling and uses of pruning, as well as on precision agriculture at the deciduous trees, and technologies of post-harvest and storage, in which we can use the rotten fruits as substrates for production of other economic value products. The farmers and the researchers were discussing uses of the wastes, as well as methodologies to reduce wastes at the farm levels.

Many farmers were presented, and they tried to absorb information on possibilities to use their pruning wastes. The researchers of MIGAL and some from other research institutes in Israel were encouraging people to find ways of using biomass for useful products, especially the apples from the orchards as feed for larvae.

We continue to develop fruit waste research. Researches will focused on the ability of biological use to treat apple residue waste. Several attempts to build a consortium to present an innovative research proposal are on the way.

The issue of using pruning as a biomass to be utilised for producing new products and protecting the environment is now under consideration by some farmers and farmers’ organisations.