Mississauga, ON Canada and Sacramento, CA USA (July 24, 2024) – TheNewswire  – Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (the “Company” or “BVT”) (CSE: BEE) (OTCQB: BEVVF) (CVE:BEE) is pleased to announce progress into markets in North Africa and the Middle East through strategic partnerships with leading, locally-connected agribusinesses in four key countries to commercialize the Company’s proprietary bee vectoring system and biological control agent Clonostachys rosea strain CR-7 (CR-7). 

“These partnerships are at the core of our strategy for quickly scaling business,” said Ashish Malik, CEO of BVT. “Leveraging established local channels and using embedded sales teams is an incredibly cost-efficient way to access more of the market, fast.” 

BVT continues to progress its strategic go-to-market collaborations in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Morocco and Israel.

In Turkey, the partnership is with BioGlobal: earlier this year, they ran demonstration trials with Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture. The trial clearly showed that the BVT bee vectoring system, used with bumblebees and a third-party microbe, is incredibly effective in precisely delivering a beneficial microbe to greenhouse tomatoes.

“The trials were extremely successful,” said Christoph Lehnen, BVT Business Manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East. “So much so that Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture has requested an official protocol be developed by the country’s research institutes to trial Clonostachys rosea strain CR-7, BVT’s proprietary biological control agent.”

Once the protocol is secured, BioGlobal will proceed with registration trials for CR-7 in Turkey, then move forward with full-country registration. BVT is also collaborating with BioGlobal in Azerbaijan, where registration could be secured in as little as a year.

In Morocco, BVT has had successful trials on tomato crops. With the resulting strong data, applying for country registration is the next step. BVT will work with Groupe SAOAS on the submission which is planned to be timed alongside the submission to the European Union 

In Israel, trials are being conducted with Lidorr Elements, a leading crop protection expert in the Israeli market. Lidorr Elements has commenced trials of CR-7 on almonds using the Company’s bee vectoring system for bumblebees, comparing it with traditional spray applications. Trials on strawberry and tomato crops are planned next.

The next step is registering BVT’s technology and selling it to local growers. This is the plan for the other three countries as well.   

“These are strategic countries for BVT to fast track to market,” continued Mr. Lehnen. “Pollinating crops with bees are already a regular agriculture industry practice in these parts of the world. The four countries combined use more than 600,000(1) commercial bee hives each year.”

BVT’s addressable market in the four key countries includes 157,600 hectares of key crops grown. This includes an estimated 106,500 hectares of covered tomatoes, cherries and berries in Turkey; 8,100 hectares of covered tomatoes, covered apricots and berries in Azerbaijan; 22,000 hectares of covered tomatoes and berries in Morocco; and 31,000 hectares of almonds, tomatoes, peppers, berries, peaches and avocados in Israel.(2)  

About Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.

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. BVT’s award-winning technology, precision vectoring, is completely harmless to bees and allows minute amounts of naturally-derived pesticides (called biologicals) to be delivered directly to blooms, providing improved crop protection and yield results than traditional chemical pesticides – and improving the health of the soil, the microbiome and the environment. Currently, BVT has over 55 granted patents, many more patents pending in all major agricultural countries worldwide and has US EPA registration of its Vectorite™ with CR-7 (EPA Registration No. 90641-2) for sale as a registered biological fungicide for use on the labeled crops.

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BVT Company Contact:

Ashish Malik, President & CEO, BVT

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BVT Investor Contacts:

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