RP seeks Israeli water know-how

RP seeks Israeli water know-how

MANILA (AFP): The Philippines has called on Israel to help it boost agriculture through using Israeli know-how in boosting vital water resources.

Philippine House Speaker Jose de Venecia urged his visiting Israeli counterpart Dan Tichon late Monday to work for a Philippine-Israeli joint venture to produce Israeli agricultural technology in this country.

"Your success in making the desert bloom, in developing your water resources ... is a story mankind will never forget," de Venecia said.

He said such technology, particularly drip-irrigation pioneered by Israel, would be useful here, "in the face of El Nio" and the Philippines' continuing attempts to boost agricultural productivity.