Agriculture

Our agricultural branches include dairy, poultry, field crops, and a large almond orchard.

* Dairy:  A herd of approximately 300 Israeli Holstein cows, produces over three and a half million liters of milk yearly.  We also breed calves for meat.

* Poultry:  Four separate climate controlled buildings, each receiving six intakes per year of one day old chicks, for a total meat production of 1000 tons.

 * Field Crops:  2,500 dunams (4 dunam = 1 acre) of irrigated summer crops - mainly cotton, industrial tomatoes and sweet corn, and 2,500 dunams of winter crops – mainly wheat.  We also grow root vegetables, amaryllis bulbs for export, and organic herbs.

Almond Orchard:  Over 800 dunams (20,000) trees, producing 90 tons of nuts each year, one of the biggest almond orchards in Israel.  Recently we have planted a 150 dunams olive orchard for oil production.         

Gilboa Area:  
Our kibbutz is very proud of our continuing contribution to the Gilboa area:

*    Factories and branches of the kibbutz offer work to many residents of the area.

*     Our Music Centre teaches nearly 250 students, adults and children, most of whom come from the surrounding settlements.

*   Our Language Centre teaches English, French, Hebrew, Arabic and German.

*    We have a very successful library, open to all.

*     We employ youth from a nearby drug rehabilitation village.

*     We sponsor and organize a cycling club at that village.

*    We organize a yearly summer camp for Downs Syndrome children.

*     We sponsor the swimming team of ILAN, Haifa (IsraeliüFoundation for the Handicapped