Must be great to point out, old, irrelevant filings, FROM
BEFORE IT BECAME BRDT, JOINED BY WORLD RENOWN, DR.
ODED SAGEE,
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BreedIT Ltd., and a pioneer
in the field of agri-high-tech, with in-depth knowledge of
agriculture, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry, and
pharmaceuticals. He completed his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served as a senior
researcher and head of department at the Agricultural
Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel.
The Agricultural Research Organization (A.R.O.) is the central
governmental research institute for agriculture in Israel.
The center is named after its founder, Dr. Yitzhak Elazari-Volcani, who
in 1921 established the Agricultural Experiment Station in Ben-Shemen
and in Tel-Aviv. In later years it became the ARO-Volcani Center. ARO is
among the best-known agricultural research centers in the world, with an
infrastructure that supports both basic and applied research in agricultural
and environmental sciences.
Personnel at ARO include approximately 200 PhD scientists, 340 engineers
and technicians, and 220 graduate students. ARO consists of six research
institutes located at the main campus near Rishon LeZion and two regional
research centers: 'Newe Yaar' in the north and 'Gilat' in the south. The
institutes are: Plant Sciences; Animal Science; Plant Protection; Soil,
Water and Environmental Sciences; Postharvest and Food Sciences; and
Agricultural Engineering.
Most of the information developed at ARO is available to the public at large,
while some is commercialized through ARO’s 'Kidum' R&D Applications
unit. Beneficiaries of the achievements of ARO include farmers, agricultural
industries, and above all—Israeli consumers, who enjoy a variety of high
quality agricultural products grown under environmentally-sustainable
conditions.
