SLAF webinar tomorrow on use of microorganism technology in agribusiness

Sri Lanka Agripreneurs’ Forum (SLAF) is inviting two South Korean scientists, who are experts at developing and applying microorganism technology into modern-day farming as holistic solutions, to speak to the Sri Lankan agribusiness community through a virtual forum on 5 October at 4 p.m. via Microsoft Teams.

Together with SLAF, Cho Jeong-Sub and Yim Tae-Bin from Ecobiznet Inc. will be hosting a webinar targeting Sri Lankan agribusiness to discuss the concept of microorganism technology, the applications of it and its commercial usage along with the benefits it presents. 

Yim has done extensive applied research on commercial applications of food microorganisms and environmental microorganisms. His work emphasises the efficient application of these and various other functional microorganisms across primary industries such as agriculture, livestock, fisheries, and related environments such as wastewater and odour management. He holds a Ph.D. in the department of Bioscience at the Kangwon University in Chuncheon, Korea. He also holds a Master’s in Biotechnology and Engineering from the Inha Universit in Incheon, Korea, on the ‘effect of skim milk-alginate beads on the survival rate of Bifidobacterium’. 

Cho holds a Ph.D. degree in Biomaterials Engineering from Kangwon University in Chuncheon, Korea. He also holds a Master of Biotechnology and Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, on ‘effects of amino acids and dissolved oxygen concentration on Invertase expression in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae’. 

Further, Cho and his organisation are committed to “contributing to a clean environment and healthy lifestyles” through extensive R&D and new business models. 

Additionally, he develops microbial culture systems (seed, medium, fermenter) to enable customers to use various microorganisms required for primary industries (agriculture, livestock, aquaculture) and environmental fields, more effectively and at a lower cost. According to Cho, the microbial culture system is sold under a brand called CellAct, to export markets where it receives great praise. 

The speakers of the planned webinar, Cho and Yim further confirm that the company Ecobiznet will combine the microbial culture systems with ICT technology to expand into smart agriculture/smart farms/smart aquaculture. They envision Ecobiznet to become a Global Effective Microbial Solution Provider. 

All interested participants are kindly requested to e-mail their full name and contact number to [email protected] to register for the webinar.

SLAF is the premier agribusiness association in Sri Lankan representing growers, farmer organizations, agri value-addition enterprises, agri professionals and academics, agri scientists, local and global marketers of agri produce, providers of agri inputs, and local agri investors, and thereby serves as the pivotal body for all of the agribusiness communities in Sri Lanka.