casterra - Integrated castor cultivation solution based on innovative technology

Integrated solution for industrialized cultivation of castor, powering the biobased materials industry forward

About

We are Casterra

Casterra offers an integrated solution based on all essential cultivation components to enable industrialized cultivation that supports a steady and stable supply of castor grains to the castor oil value chain. As a result, Casterra is leading a change in the castor industry, turning castor crop into an industrialized single-season crop.

Casterra offers the best economical solution through excellent agro and technical solutions combined with superior genetics of its seed varieties. It is essentially creating a continuous, high-quality supply of grains.
Casterra is a fully-owned subsidiary of Evogene (NASDAQ: EVGN), a leading computational biology company.

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Solutions

End-to-end solution from seed to grain

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Superior varieties development

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Seed
production

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Castor growth protocol

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Mechanical
harvest

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Proprietary dehulling machine

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High grain yield with high oil content
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Superior varieties
development

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Seed
production

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Castor growth
protocol

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Mechanical
harvest

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Proprietary dehulling
machine

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High grain yield
with high oil content

Products and Services

End-to-end crop solution

Castor Varieties

EVF712
EVF716
EVF701

Mechanical Harvest

Casterra’s mechanical harvesting machine, tailored to harvest castor varieties, offers a leading cost-effective castor harvesting solution.
This mechanical harvesting machine has been developed in collaboration with Fantini Italia S.r.l. group, a leading agricultural mechanical equipment manufacturer.

Grain Dehulling

Casterra’s proprietary dehulling machine offers high capacity grain cleaning of the best quality in the market, designed and developed by its team of technical experts.

Watch how we do it

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technology

Innovation all-around

Castor Varieties

  • Leveraging Evogene’s plant genomic capabilities, utilizing the GeneRator AI tech engine under exclusive license, Casterra develops proprietary, high-yield & high oil content Castor varieties.
  • Unique agronomic protocols and customer service to maximize Castor production in the field.

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Harvesting

Casterra, in collaboration with Fantini S.r.l., a leading manufacturer and distributor company specialized in agricultural mechanization, has developed a unique harvesting header, that best fit with its Castor varieties.

The commercial header, which is supplied exclusively to our customers, has many advantages, such as:

– High capacity, up to 50 ha/day
– Extremly low loss, Les then 7%
– Can be assembled on any standard grain combine
– Easy to maintain, cost effective operation
– Accompanied by our joint technical team with Fantini.

In collaboration with

Dehulling

This proprietary, patent-allowed, dehulling machine is a result of the integration of accumulated worldwide knowhow of Casterra’s team combined with top international experts in seed/grain dehulling.
The advantages of the machine:
– Higher % of clean grains
– Low % of broken grains
– High uniformity

Castor Varieties

  • Leveraging Evogene’s plant genomic capabilities, utilizing the GeneRator AI tech engine under exclusive license, Casterra develops proprietary, high-yield & high oil content Castor varieties.
  • Unique agronomic protocols and customer service to maximize Castor production in the field.
 

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Harvesting

Casterra, in collaboration with Fantini S.r.l., a leading manufacturer and distributor company specialized in agricultural mechanization, has developed a unique harvesting header, that best fit with its Castor varieties.

The commercial header, which is supplied exclusively to our customers, has many advantages, such as:

– High capacity, up to 50 ha/day
– Extremly low loss, Les then 7%
– Can be assembled on any standard grain combine
– Easy to maintain, cost effective operation
– Accompanied by our joint technical team with Fantini.

In collaboration with

Dehulling

This proprietary, patent-allowed, dehulling machine is a result of the integration of accumulated worldwide knowhow of Casterra’s team combined with top international experts in seed/grain dehulling.

The advantages of the machine:
– Higher % of clean grains
– Low % of broken grains
– High uniformity

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If you have any questions about Casterra, please do not hesitate to contact .

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