Fruit cracking in pomegranate is one of the biggest concerns for pomegranate growers. A single cracking event close to harvest can reduce market quality, affect storage potential, and lead to financial losses. But what if growers could identify crack ...
Pomegranate Open Day in Greece was held on 29 October 2025 at the CrackSense project’s experimental field in Argoliko. The event brought together researchers, farmers, and local stakeholders to observe how innovative sensing and monitoring techniques ...
The CrackSense Pomegranate Open Day took place on 22 October 2025 at Kibbutz Tsor’a, Israel. The event gathered researchers, growers, and project partners to exchange insights on fruit cracking and observe the experimental setup designed to monitor t ...
Expert in the spotlight: Dr Idit Ginzberg is a researcher in the Department of Vegetable and Field Crops at the Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, the Volcani Institute. Her current projects include studying the ph ...
The second growing season is in full swing, marking a critical period for field visits to experimental plots to measure, collect data, and optimise methods in the assessment of fruit cracking.Over the past few months, two significant field visits wer ...
The pomegranate, with a history as old as time, has been a part of folklore since ancient days. Thriving in hot, dry climates, these trees can live for over 200 years, gracing the world with their beauty. Today, pomegranates are cherished worldwide a ...
Pegasus Agrifood Coop and the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) recently embarked on a visit to experimental fields in Greece, where they engaged with local farmers and collected soil samples for subsequent laboratory analysis. These experiment ...
