Ceickor University, Querétaro, Mexico, a growing partner of Richmond, Va.-based Globalmex International Inc., which markets Magic Sun tomatoes, has just graduated its first class of students who have earned engineering degrees in protected agriculture, said Tony Otto, sales manager for Globalmex.
Ceickor graduates ag students
Ceickor University, Querétaro, Mexico, has just graduated its first class of students
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