Avi Koren

Avi Koren (B.S. Biology, Tel Aviv University; M.S., Plant Physiology, Tel Aviv University) plans, manages and builds desert aquaculture projects for super-intensive production of food and tropical ornamental fishes, prawns and microalgae. He developed integrated aquaculture and agriculture on Israeli Negev Desert farms. Mr. Koren owns and operates a greenhouse at Moshav Paran, in Israel’s Negev Desert, producing premium quality red, yellow and orange bell peppers exported to the U.S. market. He has been a consultant on aquaculture and agriculture development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the U.S. and Latin America. For many years he was a biologist, and later research director, of the Arava R & D Center Aquaculture Research Station, in Ein Yahev, Israel.