Tractor spraying a soybean field at dusk
BotanoHealth

Crop protection, re-engineered by nature.

BotanoHealth is an agrotech startup that turns humble botanical extracts into serious, lab-grade fungicides — using our patented NANOTECH™ nanoemulsion to make thyme oil outperform where synthetic chemistry falls short.

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2017Founded in Jerusalem
9+Countries in market or trial
OMRIListed for organic use
33%Yield gain, lettuce trial, Spain
The problem

Fungus, mold and insects quietly eat the world's harvest.

More than US$1 trillion of yield is lost every year to disease and pests along the food chain — and the standard response is heavier, more toxic chemistry that growers, retailers and regulators increasingly can't accept.

 BotanoHealth BH-BBio-pesticidesChemical pesticides
ToxicityNoneMediumHigh
Relative costLowHighMedium
Fungal resistance riskLowMediumHigh
Pre & post-harvest legal useYesYesOften not legal
Foliar spray & drip irrigationYesNoNo
Multifunctional (fungi + insects)YesSome productsSome products
US OMRI listed for organic useYesSome productsNo
Crop diseases: botrytis on tomato, bud rot on cannabis, grey mold on grapes, and mold on strawberries Botrytis · powdery mildew · grey mold — the everyday enemy
Our story

A Jerusalem startup, betting on the plants already doing the work.

Vision

To become a leading provider of plant-health solutions by harnessing natural extracts from herbal plants through innovative, sustainable practices.

Mission

Turn the potential of botanical ingredients into safe, effective, accessible health products — and build sustainable, affordable plant-health solutions at scale.

BotanoHealth is an innovative agricultural startup built by a team with deep experience developing and marketing botanical ingredients for plant health. We supply our flagship product, BH-B, to overseas distributors across Latin America, the United States, and beyond.

Our patented NANOTECH™ technology is a state-of-the-art delivery system that improves the bioavailability and overall efficacy of botanical ingredients — the difference between an essential oil that smells nice on a leaf, and one that actually stops disease in its tracks.

We're headquartered in Jerusalem, with production and logistics run out of Israel and a growing network of distribution and manufacturing partners across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia — built to bring residue-free crop protection to the entire food chain.

Leadership

The team behind the science

Yaniv Kitron, CEO of BotanoHealth
Yaniv Kitron
CEO

Chemical engineer with 25 years of international executive-level experience in business development for advanced agricultural markets.

Amir Kitron, CTO of BotanoHealth
Amir Kitron
CTO

PhD in Chemical Engineering with 30 years of executive experience in botanic products, R&D and commercialization.

Itamar Highkin, CFO of BotanoHealth
Itamar Highkin
CFO

15 years of experience in financing and product management across large public companies and startups.

Shay Jean, Business Development at BotanoHealth
Shay Jean
Business Development

Former senior executive positions.

The technology

NANOTECH™ — making a leaf drink in what it used to shed.

Cross-section illustration of a leaf surface showing the nanoemulsion droplets penetrating the waxy cuticle and stomata

Sprayed thyme oil alone evaporates and washes off within hours. NANOTECH™ is our patented process that restructures thyme oil into a stable nano-emulsion — dramatically increasing the surface area of active droplets and how evenly they spread across a leaf.

Polysaccharides built into the formulation help the emulsion cling to the leaf's surface, cutting evaporation and rain wash-off, so a single application keeps working longer.

1

The nano-emulsion maximizes spreading and coverage of the active ingredient across the leaf surface.

2

On contact, it disrupts the fungal cell membrane, causing leakage of cellular contents.

3

It interferes with Ergosterol production — a metabolic process the fungus needs to survive — without harming the plant.

4

Result: cell death in the pathogen, and a natural, contact/preventive alternative to synthetic fungicides.

NANOTECH — driven by nature OMRI Listed for organic production
Thyme plant, the source of BH-B's active ingredient

It starts here: common thyme (Thymus vulgaris). NANOTECH™ is what turns its essential oil into a formulated crop-protection product.

General information — BH-B
Active ingredient
Thyme oil
FRAC code
BM01
Content
10 g/L · 1%
Formulation
Soluble liquid (SL)
Mode of action
Contact / preventive
Certification
OMRI Listed
Products

One nanoemulsion platform. Three products in the field.

Every BotanoHealth product ships on the same NANOTECH™ delivery platform — tuned for the crop, the pathogen, and the moment in the food chain it needs to protect.

BH-B BotanoHealth Fungicide bottles in three sizes
01 · Flagship

BH-B® Botanic

Organic fungicide · thyme oil · nanoemulsion

Our core organic fungicide, built on NANOTECH™. Effective as a preventive treatment against Botrytis, powdery and downy mildew, and other foliar fungal disease — in organic programs and as a residue-reducing rotation partner in conventional agriculture.

OMRI ListedContact / preventive1–2% dose rateFoliar spray & drip
Botano One SL used on blueberries and grapes
02 · High-value fruit

Botano One® SL

Fungicida biológico · aceite de tomillo

A NANOTECH™-formulated thyme-oil fungicide purpose-built for blueberries and vineyards, where bloom sensitivity and export residue limits leave little room for error. Doesn't affect bloom, produces no phytotoxicity, and is listed with Aneberries, Mexico.

OMRI ListedNo effect on bloomBlueberries & grapesRegistered — Peru
Botano Wash fruit and vegetable washing solution
03 · Post-harvest

Botano Wash

Organic fruit & vegetable wash

Protection doesn't stop at the field. Botano Wash rinses away wax, pesticide and chemical residue, dirt, germs and bacteria from fresh produce — an OMRI-listed, plant-based finish to the same food-chain philosophy behind BH-B.

OMRI ListedSafe for fruit & vegSpray & rinse
Application demonstration

BH-B, going on — full coverage, one pass.

A standard foliar application in a working greenhouse: backpack sprayer, even coverage, no special equipment required. This is what a preventive spray round looks like on the ground.

Field application — commercial greenhouse BH-B · foliar spray
Field results

Tested where it matters — in real greenhouses and real fields.

BH-B has been trialed across more than a dozen crop-disease combinations on four continents. A selection of the headline results:

Powdery mildew field trial data on cannabis alongside export pallets of BH-B Trial data → factory → export pallet
+33%Yield
Lettuce, Spain. BH-B increased yield by 33% over the untreated control, with visibly larger, higher-quality heads.Field trial · Spain
Lower severity
Powdery mildew, Cannabis. Infected-leaf index fell to 2–3 under BH-B vs. 6.6–9.6 on untreated controls over the same trial window.Field trial · Israel, Jan 2021
1stChoice biologic
Botrytis / grey mold. Control in grapes, berries and tomatoes comparable to established thyme & peppermint oil reference products.
Bestof treatments
Sigatoka, Banana. ADF-78 (0.5%) produced the lowest disease severity and longest time to disease development of all treatments tested.Field trial · Philippines, 2022
Recommended field doses, by market
CountryCropTargetDose rate
PeruBlueberryGrey mold (Botrytis cinerea)0.8–1.0 L/200L
PeruGrapeGrey mold (Botrytis cinerea)0.8–1.2 L/200L
MexicoRaspberryGrey mold (Botrytis cinerea)5–7 cc/L
MexicoTomatoGrey mold (Botrytis cinerea)5–7 cc/L
MexicoCucumberPowdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea)6–8 cc/L
MexicoRosesGrey mold (Botrytis cinerea)2–4 cc/L
NicaraguaTobaccoBlue mold (Peronospora tabacina)2.0–2.8 L/Ha
ColombiaCoffeeCoffee rust (Hemileia vastatrix)7.0 cc/L

Trial program — conclusions

  • Application strategy: BH-B is a first-choice option in biological rotation programs for plant protection.
  • Infestation levels: best suited to low-to-moderate disease pressure, applied preventively.
  • Powdery mildew: effective control at low-to-moderate levels in grapes, tomatoes and cucumbers.
  • Botrytis: control comparable to reference thyme/peppermint-oil products in grapes, berries and tomatoes.
  • Expanding evidence base: promising early results against anthracnose, apple scab, coffee rust, downy mildew, Sigatoka and rice neck blast, with further program testing under way.
World map highlighting BotanoHealth's distribution regions
RegionPartnerCrops / targets
Mexico, C. America,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
HanseAndinaOrnamentals, grapes, berries, banana, coffee, vegetables — Botrytis, powdery mildew, Sigatoka, coffee rust
PhilippinesIVABanana — field trial & registration, initial revenue
BrazilAgroCultivoCoffee, soybean, banana, grapes, vegetables — coffee & soybean rust, Sigatoka, Botrytis, powdery mildew
United StatesAquabella & othersCannabis, grapes, berries — Botrytis, powdery mildew, spider mites
South AfricaChemPacGrapes — powdery mildew, Botrytis (registration under way)
Israel2 local distributorsFruits, vegetables — powdery mildew, Botrytis, spider mites (revenue & registered)

Licensed & certified production. Our manufacturing process is scalable and raw materials are available at volume — we're rolling out regional production units in key territories to cut logistics costs by up to 90%.

Agroalfa, official BH-B Botanic distributor in Nicaragua
HanseAndina, BotanoHealth distribution partner in Peru

From a Jerusalem lab to fields on five continents.

Get in touch

Bring BH-B to your market.

Distributors, growers and investors — we'd like to hear from you. Reach the team directly, or send a note below.

Israel — HQ
Address15 Hatzvi St, Jerusalem, Israel
United States — Subsidiary
Address10835 Villa Lea Ln, Houston, TX 77071
Direct line

Yaniv Kitron, CEO

Prefer email? Write directly to yaniv@botanohealth.com