Introduction

• Artemis & Angel Co. Ltd., is Thailand’s leading company for producing advanced bio-technology, liquid bio-fertilizers.
• Artemis & Angel Co. Ltd. was founded in 1984 by the company President, Somkiet Panjanapongchai. From 1984 until mid-2009 it was called Artemis & Angelio Ltd.
• The main office is in central Bangkok while the production facilities are outside the city area.
• The company has agents in about 30 countries in Africa, the USA, South America, Asia, S.E. Asia, and China.

The Meaning of the Company Name

• Artemis represents the goddess of Nature in Greek mythology. She was concerned with matters of the outdoors, animals, and environmental protection. She was practical, adventurous, athletic and preferred solitude. She symbolizes regenerative earth power over all living things.
• Angelio means “messenger” and “Messenger of God”.

The Products

• The company manufactures:
  1. Two advanced bio-technology, 100% organic, liquid, microbial bio-fertilizers called Bio-Plant and Pro-Plant, which enable a country to phase out chemical agriculture and replace it with 100% organic farming.
     
     
     • They lower the cost of food production; increase the yield above what chemical fertilizers can achieve; restore the soil’s fertility by infusing it with a huge concentration of micro-organisms; reduce disease significantly; and produce healthy, chemical-free food.
     
     
     
     • In bio-chemical farming the bio-fertilizers enable farmers to halve the   amount of chemical fertilizers they use in the first season while still increasing the crop yield. The rest of the chemicals can be phased out over the following 2 years. This is a pace of change that even hardened chemical farmers can accept.
       
       
  
  
  Some of the fermentation tanks used to make the bio-fertilizers
  
  
  2. Granular or powder bio-organic NPK3 and NPK4 called Red Sun, which can be used to replace Urea and NPK. While the bio-technology of the liquid bio-
     fertilizers is by far superior to the old-style technology of granular fertilizer, this product is for chemical farmers who do not want to give up granular fertilizer.
     
     
  3. bout 50 bio-technology products for prawn farmers to raise prawns and operate a prawn farm.
     
     
  • The company’s bio-technology prawn farm products helped to establish and develop the major tiger prawn industry in Thailand and Vietnam in the late 1980s.
    
    
  • Both the shrimp farm products and bio-fertilizers are the result of the company President’s research in the field of bio-technology. Bio-Plant and Pro-Plant were created on the back of the success of the prawn farm products with the desire to provide an alternative to chemical fertilizers, which would not only restore the fertility of the soil and increase food production, but also to improve the well-being of farmers. Many aspects of his work in agriculture are not considered possible by “experts”, though farmers welcome the benefits nevertheless.

The Bio-technology Behind the Bio-fertilizers

• Bio-Plant and Pro-Plant are the result of research in bio-technology, which the company President, Somkiet Panjanapongchai, has carried out over many years. He has discovered new processes that make it possible to put the micro-organisms and fungi groups, and major and minor minerals of fertile soil into a very concentrated liquid form and create a pair of synergistic, microbial, 100% organic bio-fertilizers that can restore the fertility of soil within 2-3 years; even soil beaten to death by 20-30 years of chemical fertilizers and sprays.

Credit Fund

• The company also provides a US$25 million per year Credit Fund in the form of the bio-fertilizers to enable a government to provide farmers throughout the country with the bio-fertilizers on credit so that the country can make the transition from 100% chemical farming to bio-chemical farming, and then to 100% organic farming over 3 years. We suggest 3 years purely because this is a pace of change that chemical farmers can accept.

• Our overall goal in agriculture is to leave a legacy in each country where we have agents by enabling the country to phase out chemical agriculture, and to replace 100% chemical farming with 100% organic farming, with bio-chemical farming being the interim strategy to achieve this goal.