Bee Vectoring T
echnology International Inc. is pleased to announce that its US sales is progressing as projected for the 2022 growing season. The sales plan is on track in the Southeast, with additional growth expected in more recently opened markets in other key growing regions.
Sales commitments in the Southeast, with two months in the selling season still to go, has already exceeded last year’s total acres. BVT is still in discussions with customers representing several hundred potential new acres. High customer retention has also been confirmed in the Southeast, with 80% of growers from last year already confirmed to use BVT’s natural precision agriculture system for the upcoming blueberry bloom period in February.
“The cost of inputs for growers has skyrocketed, and having customers reorder when they are cutting back in other areas shows how important BVT is to their operation. Many traditional chemical products have risen by as much as 40 percent over the last year,” says Ian Collinson, Sales Manager at BVT.
“Our expansion in the US market is progressing on schedule in terms of sales growth and retention,” added Mr. Collinson. “We’ve secured sales in the Southeast as a solid foundation, since their growing season starts first. The bulk of BVT’s new sales growth will occur over the next three to four months, aligned with later growing seasons in the Northeast, Midwest, Pacific Northwest and California.”
To help with growth in the newer regional markets, BVT is leveraging the powerful results from 2021 university and grower trials of BVT’s bee vectoring system and Vectorite™ with CR-7 biological fungicide. Some trial results are already in and BVT has put them to immediate use in the sales process. These trials were conducted with respected agricultural academic institutions, including the University of California and North Dakota State University, as well as growers in Oregon and California.
“The trial data is rolling in, and we’re all excited by how promising it is,” says Ashish Malik, CEO of BVT. “We’re seeing big benefits in real-world applications, with higher yields, bigger berries, higher quality crops, and reduced disease incidence and severity. This validates previous experience in specific crops and regions, and gives a major boost to our product proof so we can effectively present the BVT solution to even more growers.”
Growers rely on trials conducted under their own local growing conditions when they’re deciding on new technology: those trials are critical for market penetration and growth in individual regions.
For more information:
Ashish Malik
Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc.
Email: [email protected]