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An Investment of 4.2m$ will Promote Green Products


Private equity firm Infinity Group has announced a $4.2 million investment in the green biotech company BotanoCap. Thanks to this investment the company plans further business development in China, Europe and the United States, and will use the money to cover the expenses incurred for patent applications, maintenance and regulatory matters.
Founded by professors from Ben Gurion University in 2005, BotanoCap seeks to develop green solutions to replace toxic chemicals currently found in a wide range of agricultural, industrial and household products.
The Company's novel technology creates modified release products based on natural ingredients. Applications include crop protection bio-pesticides, water treatment materials, natural disinfectants, veterinary preparations and insect repellents.
The company's work will help reduce the use of chemicals, potentially harmful in one way or another by developing green substitutes for safer and natural applications.

The company has embarked upon a mission to help solve the problems associated with harmful chemicals and pollutants on a global scale as it strives to make the world a cleaner, greener and safer place to live and we at the Infinity Group are proud to be partners in this promising initiative," said Amir Gal-Or, founding and managing partner at Infinity Group. "The investment announced today reflects the confidence Infinity Group has in BotanoCap's novel technology and current product line.
This funding will enable the development of an increased range of products for soil treatment, field crop protection, seed treatment and post-harvest treatment and bring them to the market place, thus supporting agriculture by improving the quality and safety of the food supply," said BotanoCap's CEO, Mr. Yigal Gezundhait


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Thailand wants Agricultural Business Cooperation with Indonesian



A representative of the Thai private sector wants Cooperation in Indonesia, especially East Java, to establish business cooperation in agriculture because they want to strengthen the good relations between the two countries.

"One of them in terms of the technological transformation of agriculture," said Ambassador of Thailand, Thanatip Upatising, during a visit at the office of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin)

According Thanatip, Indonesia is still having a lot of problems in the crop production sector. whereas, there are a number of factors that should be a priority in the future, of which the adequacy of food, energy sufficiency, and adequacy of water. "On the other hand, Indonesia annually has lost about 27.5 billion hectares of productive land are reclassified as industrial land or the other," he said.

Thanatip predict when productive land has been used up and the rice production is lowered, they will do the conversion of land to agriculture. To that end, the government should immediately increase production. "If you usually rice production reached 800 tons per hectare, ideally increased to 1,000 tonnes per hectare," he said.

Related weak management systems and processing of food crop production in Indonesia, he considered the condition to be one of the factors causing unbalanced Indonesian agricultural production. "In fact, the potential is large enough to be developed," he said.

To that end, Indonesia could learn about agricultural technology to Thailand. Conversely when Indonesia could make a breakthrough, then Thailand will learn him. Moreover, the population of Indonesia is the largest market in the region. "Moreover, economic growth is very fast so that it can attract the attention of other countries like ours to improve trading performance," he said.