Scottsdale 10/22/2011 2:48:04 AM
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Stevia Corp. (STEV) Appoints New Chief Scientist to Head Vietnam-based Stevia Developments

QualityStocks would like to highlight Stevia Corp. (OTCBB: STEV). Stevia Corp. is a farm management company focused on best practice agronomic competency in order to deliver high value stevia through proprietary plant breeding, excellent agricultural methodologies and innovative post-harvest techniques. To date, the Company has acquired two grower supply contracts and three nursery fields in Vietnam.

In the company’s news yesterday,

Stevia Corp. announced Dr. Young Cheol Cho as the company’s new chief scientist. He will be based in Vietnam with the responsibility of spearheading the development of Stevia.

“Through our development agreement with Agro Genesis we are extremely fortunate that they have provided us with the expert services of Dr. Cho on a dedicated full time basis. He will be living in Vietnam where he will assemble a team of experts to lead and accelerate our field program targeting the yield and quality of our Stevia products through the application of superior agronomics and innovation. We wish to welcome him to the team and look forward to his participation in our growing company,” George Blankenbaker, president of Stevia stated in the press release.

Dr. Cho is an agronomist with a specialized focus on crop breeding & cultivation, crop physiology and quality improvements in agriculture & life sciences. His previous experience includes planning, organizing and administering the managerial functions of advanced farming processes along with leading experimental farm programs and projects requiring the implementation of complex research procedures under commercialized farm conditions.

Stevia’s new chief scientist has also been heavily involved in the research and development of crops and management of commercial farms tasked with establishing cultural practices and breeding of rice, ginseng, Job’s tears, soybean and scutellaria to improve crop yield, quality and processing.

Dr. Cho attended Seoul National University where he studied Agronomy specializing in Crop Breeding & Culturing in Crop Science. He is a member of the Korean Society of Breeding Science, Korean Society of Crop Science, Korean Society of Medicinal Crop Science, and Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

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