ISHS Acta Horticulturae 443: International Conference on Greenhouse Technologies
PREFACE |
| Author: | U.M. Peiper |
| Abstract:
We are living in changing times in many respects. If we think of agriculture in this country, which had little agricultural tradition to begin with, we are talking of a real revolution. In the early days of renewed Jewish settlement in this country, the tendency was to create rather small family farms with mixed agriculture. The farmer had a little land, usually about two and a half to three hectares, on which he was supposed to live while raising a few animals (cattle and poultry), grow the necessary foodstuff and also some fruit and vegetables for marketing. In just a few years we witnessed a revolution which forced the farmer to become an expert in one field and from a diversified agriculture we are now witnessing a mainly monocultural farming. Dr.
Yeshaiahu Segal, or Sheike as we used to call him was born on a farm of the first kind but he saw the tendency many years ago and already when he went for his Ph.D. studies he prepared himself for the newly emerging field of greenhouse engineering.
Sheike was the giving kind.
He devoted himself to his family, to his work, to our institute and last but not least, to the farming community in Israel and abroad.
His international activities at the FAO and the European committees were directly linked to his decision to devote part of his time to practical extension work.
He needed the direct contact with the farmers.
He had already organized few conferences and started to organize this one as well, a work he did not finish.
It is only natural that this symposium was dedicated to his memory. | |
