L’Atelier BNP Paribas: Kaiima (Israel) plateform, develops new crop varieties for free GMO agriculture
Change It, L’Atelier BNP Paribas video magazine, presents innovation in all its forms. It aims to identify the most innovative start-ups and offers insights into their operations worldwide. Discover Israeli society Kaiima. Kaiima company is a genetic and reproductive technology that has developed a proprietary platform that improves the productivity of plants.
Kaiima developed a pioneering, non-GMO, technology platform called EP. EP, coupled with advanced breeding programs, boosts the inherent productivity and resource usage efficiency of high-impact food and energy crops.
EP™ is a non-GMO technology that can boost the inherent productivity of high-impact food and energy crops – creating value for farmers worldwide. In addition to increasing yields, EP™technology also strengthens the crops’ tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses, improves land and water-use efficiencies and increases CO2 fixation.
The company collaborates with partners around the globe to develop new crop varieties, specifically suited for sustainable agriculture. Kaiima is also active in castor breeding, marketing and sales as well as high-quality vegetable variety development through its subsidiary, Top Seeds.
Kaiima, (which means “sustainability” in Hebrew) is an innovative Israel-based plant genetics and breeding-technology company. Kaiima has developed a pioneering, non-GMO technology platform called EP™ which, when coupled with advanced breeding programs, boosts the inherent productivity and resource usage efficiency of high-impact food and energy crops. The company’s mission is “to help feed the world and energize it by introducing new varieties of key agricultural crops, specifically designed for sustainable agriculture, and with vastly improved yields.” Kaiima is headquartered in the Lower Galilee, Israel.