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It is well known that the COVID-19 pandemic had many social and economic effects all over the world. During this time, people’s priorities changed on many issues. In this new environment, in addition to what preventative measures were taken, the importance of food security and safety has increased rapidly becoming the top priority of many people.

Unlike the many economic activities that have been able to come to a standstill, the cessation of agricultural production and, in particular that of crops, would be disastrous. Good quality of agricultural inputs (fertilizers, biostimulants and crop protection products) are crucial in order to maintain crop production and keep productivity.

Turkey has more than 23 million hectares of cultivated land and is a heavily agricultural country growing many crops, especially vegetables, fruits, cereals, fiber crops, etc. In different climatic regions of Turkey, vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and eggplants and fruits such as grapes, apples, pears, peaches, apricots and cherries are produced in large quantities. Still there are other products including wheat, rice, olives, citrus, hazelnuts, corn, sugarbeet and cotton.

PBI’s passion and commitment towards sustainable agriculture has been our driving force and sole reason of entering Turkish agricultural market. As a company, we want to serve Turkish agriculture with best sustainable agricultural inputs. We are working on introducing our products to the Turkish agricultural market at a fast pace. The trials of many of our products, especially InnoAg Stimgo, InnoAg Start, InnoAg More, InnoAg Harvest,  are ongoing in Turkish operations; especially on greenhouse vegetables. We have plans to license these products in the country and offer them to Turkish farmers within a short time. We believe that we can help Turkish growers with PBI products to produce more and higher quality crops to enhance food security and safety of the country.

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About the Author

This article is written by Umit Ersoz. Umit is Business Development Partner of PBI and GBAL in Turkey.  He is a skilled professional with over 33 years’ experience in agribusiness, R&D and regulatory aspects. He expertise in product trials and product registrations. He also has hands on experience in Product stewardship and business development and has an in-depth understanding of Turkish agriculture.

Kai Hu is our new Business Development Partner for Primary BioAg Innovations and Global BioAg Linkages in North West Region, China. Kai is a skilled professional with over 13 years’ experience in agribusiness and agri-input distribution.  Kai is experienced in the sustainability and biosciences space and brings a wealth of knowledge to our team.

“My goal is to create new and big customers and provide best post-sale services,” he says, “while looking for differentiated positioning of products in the market.” Kai feels “innovative high quality PBI products and GBAL services can revolutionize the bio-agriculture in Asia”

Kai Hu has rich experience of working in BioAg segment including Acadian Seaplants Ltd from 2019 to 2021, where he responsible for channel development and precise product positioning in the northwest market, and quickly realized the rapid distribution of products. Prior to that he has worked with Shaanxi Xidahuate Science and Technology Industry Co., Ltd. and Shaanxi Sunger BioScience Co., Ltd. A highlight of this time was having achieving a growth of single Xinjiang market performance from 1.5 million to 6 million. Also, he takes proud in achieving a 90% rate within the company’s customer development and product sales across several markets creating one million-revenue customer and developing five new customers.

Kai is passionate about product marketing and enjoys the challenge of positioning products in new markets.  He recalls “while working at Shaanxi Xidahuate we started from the farmers’ association and succeeded in creating fine brake products and cultivating large customers with an increase of more than 500,000 CNY. Since taking over the Xinjiang market, we have built seven large customers with more than 500,000 CNY company products revenue and three large customers with more than one million sales revenue of company product.” PBI and GBAL Founder CEO, Roger Tripathi remarked “I feel that Asia team has gained a lot of strength with Kai joining the team. I am confident that Kai will strongly position PBI products and GBAL services in Asia and China and I can see good amount of growth happening in bio-agriculture space soon in Asia and specifically China.”

Agricultural biologicals are now the fastest-growing segments of the agricultural input market. During last years industry demonstrated impressive development both on national and global levels. But still, the industry has a very fragmented informational support, represented by bio ag news parts of main inputs sites, expensive industry studies and adverts bulletins.

BioAg Industry needs a Flagship Independent Magazine

Global biologicals industry needs a professional source of transparent and actual market information from the demand and supply sides of the business. So GBAL decided to make BAW Digest – a digital magazine for global bio ag industry professionals. This magazine will not be a news aggregator which is gathering headlines, also it will not be an industry adverts catalog.

We plan to produce high-quality periodicals to become the most reliable source of industry updates and news, to provide thoroughly checked and validated market information, with best industry experts view and market analysis. Magazine to become the informational tool to show the global picture of the industry and understand regions\countries trends and updates. We are sure that increasing standards of the industry market information will lead to positive benefits for the bioag industry.

“With BAW Digest, we want to save your time by choosing the best info of the industry, processing it, and making”the extract” from the ocean of industry information. Also, our team of experts to add more value using our global experience and market knowledge through their opinions and editorials.”

Roger Tripathi, co-founder of BAW Digest, GBAL CEO

BAW digest is published online/pdf, 6 times per year, 30+pages of market info where exclusive content takes minimum 50% and advertisements maximum 15%.

BAW Digest #1 release date is September 20, 2021

Why GBAL ?

GBAL’s locally global network is most unique family of local source of news, information and knowledge. Our network and the team has everything to become a supplier of the best quality industry information and the producer of the key industry media. Additionally, we are also directly connected to news makers and managers.

Global Network: We are the only global network of highly accomplished, local specialists. Our globally local expert team is keen in business matchmaking and operation acceleration by linking bio-agriculture companies to ensure success in their globalization efforts.

Expertise: We are a team of experienced international experts, our collaboration creates a unique synergy of industry expertise and global-to-local vision.

Multiple Level: We provide the expertise of eight different services for biological industry, we understand the industry needs on multiple levels and know its informational needs.

Unique Experience: With the collective business experience of more than 760 years, our founding partners previously held roles within multinational companies and decided to join forces to help BioAg companies reach their goals. Our Partners and Business Directors are the experts on local, regional or global levels in such areas as: Bioagriculture, Agricultural innovations, Sustainable agriculture, BioAg regulations, Product licensing, Biopesticides, Seed / seed tech, Biostimulants, Biofertilizers, IPM and ICM, etc.

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