October 20/Indianapolis/Marketwire -- Stevia Corp. welcomed Dr. Young Cheol Cho to the position of chief scientist.
Cho is an agronomist specializing in crop breeding & cultivation, crop physiology and quality improvements in agriculture & life sciences. His scope of work involves 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. Throughout much of his career he has been deeply 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. Under Stevia Corp.'s development agreement with Agro Genesis, Cho from Agro Genesis will be based in Vietnam to spearhead the development of Stevia.