Talk:Agriculture in Israel

page seems pretty one-sided
Modern agriculture developed in the late nineteenth century, when Jews began settling in the land.[2] They purchased land which was mostly semi-arid, although much had been rendered untillable by deforestation, soil erosion and neglect something tells me the palestines might take issue with isreal boasting how the land was all neglected and ill-kept before the 'israeli's' arrived. this whole page is one big commercial for how israel 'turned desert into farmland'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.127.244.226 (talk) 02:19, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

dunams
Can we please replace this idiotic measurement with one most people actually know? Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie &#124; Say Shalom! 17:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Cherry Tomatoes are not Israeli 'invention' from the '70s
Hi all, people claiming that Israel 'invented' the cherry tomato in the '70s has been a problem on several wiki pages that I've found. My references regarding the history of the cherry tomato have been removed from the article, so I'm just going to post a few here in case someone attempts to assert the 'invention' claim again: Regards, --Stvfetterly (talk) 13:18, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * F. Smith, Andrew (1994). The tomato in America: early history, culture, and cookery. ISBN 978-1570030000. - Thought to have originated in Chile/Northern Peru
 * http://www.tomatocasual.com/2008/04/10/greece%E2%80%99s-santorini-cherry-tomatoes/ - cherry tomato brought to Greece a couple hundred years ago
 * http://www.santorini.com/restaurants/tomatines.htm, - Santorini cherry tomato was heavily cultivated in Greece in the 1800s
 * http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BXVjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qHkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4590,1543679&dq=cherry-tomato&hl=en - Cherry tomato published in papers long before the '70s.

israel food producion
there's no proof that israel produces 95% of it's food. to my best knowledge it's not even technically possible. the arrable land here is quite small per capita. anyway the reference is empty so i deleted the relevant line — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatso (talk • contribs) 03:44, 13 July 2012 (UTC) i have checked with faostat and the production is nowhere near the quote. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quatso (talk • contribs) 03:45, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

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Contradicts main Israel page
The main page about Israel says that 80% of cereal grains are imported, while this page says that Israel produces 95% of the food used for internal consumption, with a small complement of imports such as cereals. One of them must be either a lie or misleading. 200.108.63.153 (talk) 12:24, 14 February 2021 (UTC)