May 1, 2002

United Genetics Seeds Co. has the pleasure to announce that Mr Elias Chlala has joined its sales and marketing force.

Elias Chlala will be primarily responsible to serve the markets in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

He brings to United Genetics Seeds many years of seed marketing experience and an extensive knowledge of the sales territories he will cover and of their requirements.

Elias Chlala is eager to meet all the distributors of United Genetics and all future potential customers.

Elias will be based at the United Genetics headquarters in Hollister, California. He can be reached by phone at 1 831 636 4882, by cell phone at +1 209 610 7908 or by e-mail at elias@unitedgenetics.com.