Mr. Ashish Malik reports
BEE VECTORING TECHNOLOGIES RECEIVES MEXICAN APPROVAL ON ITS PROPRIETARY BIOLOGICAL FOR COMMERCIAL USE
Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.'s proprietary Vectorite with
Clonostachys Rosea
CR-7 (CR-7) has been approved by Mexico's COFEPRIS (The Federal Commission for Protection from Sanitary Risks), the country's health authority responsible for registration of plant protection products, for use as a fungicide on commercial crops. The approval covers delivery of CR-7 using both bumble bees and honeybees on various high-value crops, including the berry group of crops and indoor vegetables.
"The success of BVT receiving regulatory approval for its product in Mexico is consistent with our strategy to focus on increasing the company's addressable market through geographic market expansion," said Ashish Malik, chief executive officer of Bee Vectoring. "With U.S. EPA approval in 2019, and now by adding Mexico COFEPRIS approval allowing BVT's CR-7 to be sold in Mexico for the first time, we have significantly increased the market opportunity for commercial sales of the company's proprietary biological fungicide."
Mexico's growers offer significant market potential for Bee Vectoring's natural precision agriculture system: official statistics indicate that the country's production in 2019 included 41,600 acres of strawberries, 12,100 acres of blueberries, and over 377,000 acres of tomatoes and peppers.
In the same year, U.S. imports of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables from Mexico amounted to $15.6-billion (U.S.). The country uses $1.3-billion (U.S.) worth of pesticides each year,
but an increasing number of growers are turning to biologicals as an alternative that offers better quality, greater food safety and reduces the need for chemicals.
"Having already completed demos with some berry growers in Mexico, and with the registration now in hand, BVT is in a great place to secure a commercial arrangement with a partner to bring our system to market in Mexico," added Mr. Malik. "Mexico is a strategic market for BVT -- being an export-oriented country where the growers are keen to adopt low- or no-chemical solutions to fight diseases and increase crop yields, BVT's all-natural solution together with the classification of CR-7 being exempt from
residue tolerance in the U.S., will provide them with a competitive advantage."
Mexico's COFEPRIS registration makes Vectorite with CR-7 available immediately for sale as a registered fungicide for use on the labelled crops.
About
Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc
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BVT, an agriculture technology company, is a market disruptor with a significant global market opportunity in the $240 billion crop protection and fertilizer market. BVT has pioneered a natural precision agriculture system that replaces chemical pesticides and wasteful plant protection product spray applications by delivering biological pesticide alternatives to crops using commercially grown bees.
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