Growmach Tractor, Agricultural machinery, Equipment & Technologies Fair to be held by Informa this year for the first time on 10-14 October is preparing to bring together domestic and international strong brands of the sector.

Engin Er, the Exhibition Director, stating that preparations are on the way for this important event to be held at Antalya Anfaş Fair and Exhibition Center said that professionals of international agricultural machinery will find the opportunity to review the latest agricultural technologies and new products used in agricultural automation at Growmach.

Stressing that Growmach to be held for the first time this year as an international event offers a major platform to create new opportunities of trade Er said:  “As Informa, we pride ourselves in organizing another international fair in Türkiye. Both Turkish and international agricultural machinery and equipment firms show a great interest in Growmach and field sales are rapidly continuing. The entire domestic and international firms will access to the new markets and will conduct new sales connections thus finding an opportunity in growing their turnovers. With the help of Growmach we will bring our participants with the sector professionals from the Middle East, Africa, Balkans, Europe, Russia & BOT countries. We will be promoting the latest technology and new products to our visitors.”   

 

TÜRKİYE RAISES TO A HIGHER POSITION ONM GLOBAL RANKING

Growmach Exhibition Director Engin Er also drew attention to the fact that the manufacture of agricultural machinery in Türkiye is on the rise for the last 20 years according to the particular  data provided by TARMAKBİR and MAİB.  

Engin Er provided the following information: “Our exports for the 2023 January-May term has increased by 4,6 per cent depending on the 2022 level and reached 594 million dollars. With these data, the sector ranks 6^th position among 23 sectors in the general machinery sectors. The countries where we export to may be described as the USA, Italy, Russia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, France, Iraq, Bulgaria, Australia, and Romania.

Our import volume in agricultural machinery sector for the term of January-April 2023 increased by 84 per cent compared to the level in 2022, and reached 454 million dollars.  With these data, our sector provided a foreign trade surplus of 60 million dollars as from April and ranked 23^rd position amongst the general machinery sectors and 7^th in export-import coverage ratio. Our exports for the term of 2023 January-May in machinery as a total grew by 11.7 per cent compared to the level in 2022 and rose to around 10,2 billion dollars. Export unit value per person was 7.3 dollars.” 

APPLICATIONS FOR INNOVATIONS AWARDS STARTED

Stating that Growmach Innovation Awards is one of the leading events that Growmach attributes importance to, Engin Er, emphasized that Innovation Awards bears importance for the agricultural machinery sector. 

Expressing that the application process for the awards is in progress Er added that the entire firms operating in the agricultural machinery sector and creating innovative products may submit applications for these awards.  

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AUTOMATION WILL LEAVE THEIR MARK ON THE FAIR

The firms operating in the field of artificial intelligence and automation in agriculture will host the fair visitors at their stands with their latest technology products at this year’s Growmach fair.

Şeyda Gül Marketing Expert from  Mama Havacılık that manufactures agricultural spraying drones in Ankara said they aim at both promoting their drones and services at the fair and creating new networks.

Stating that they attach importance to sectoral fairs, Gül said they will be convening and individually communicating at the fair with the farmers and manufacturing firms as well as certified pilots.  

Providing information regarding her firm Mana Havacılık, Şeyda Gül said the following: “our firm holds an installation team of an over-30 years of experience and over 100 employees in the field of aviation and aerospace. Our firm manufactures agricultural spraying drones and provide spraying services to the farmers with the help of these drones. With a human-oriented approach in manufacture and servicing, we aim at providing the most appropriate solutions to the needs of our customers. As Mana Havacılık, we manufacture 3 different types of drones and provide operational and training services.  With the help of our UAV1 and UAV2 certified pilots we provide spraying services to the requesting farmers. We also raise UAV1 and UAV2 certified pilots with the help of our trainings approved by the THK University and Directorate General of Civil Aviation. Aerial agricultural spraying via drones will provide an advantage not only in respect of water but also in respect of saving agricultural sprays. By this way we also have the opportunity of preventing the potential harming on crops when they are plowed by tractors. This helps us raise efficiency.”   

 

AUTOMATED STEERING SYSTEM FACILITATES THE WORK OF FARMERS

 

Oğuzhan Arık, General Manager of AGV Tecnic that manufactures ‘automated steering’ that has the remote command capability over the tractor on a certain route  said this system helps them raise product efficiency and reduce operating costs.   

Arık said the following: “The automated steering system is a system that provides the capability to the driver in creating regular lines over a route defined by the user on the lands to be processed, with the tractor and self-propelled agricultural machinery (harvester-thresher, beet lifter, cotton harvester, etc.). AGV Technic automated steering system ensures comfortably completion of the processes on your field without being affected by negative weather conditions. It mostly prevents the overlapping of lines in spraying, fertilizing and crop planting practices. By the way of this system input costs will be lowered as fertilizer and seed expenditures are decreased. Farmers can very easily  adapt to this system. Automated steering system also ensure saving of fuel, time, work efficiency, fertilizer, and spraying. An efficiency rise of 20 per cent may be ensured out of all the entire procedures. In other words, you can obtain 120 decares of product out of a land of 100 decares. We stand with our farmers with minimum sensitivity, easy installation, multiple operating modes, remote connection and 7/24 technical support.”     

Expressing that domestic and international firms will come together on the occasion of the Growmach fair which will be held for the first time this year Oğuzhan Arık added that visitors will find the opportunity of seeing the products closely.     

 

WE BRING AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY TO AN UPPER LEVEL

 

Ömer Faruk Koç, the founder of the Istanbul-based Move On firm that operates on artificial intelligence and automation in agriculture said they provide both saving opportunities and advantages to the manufacturers in the sector.   

Koç also noted with the patented software they developed as the Move On firm, they bring agricultural efficiency to an upper level in areas like post-seeding product harvesting, spraying, fertilizers, and weeding with the help of artificial intelligence and camera systems integrated into the tractors. 

Providing information regarding the works of Move On, Koç said the following. “Our firm received its first patent in 2018; and we started our operations as from January 2020. We provide services across Türkiye primarily in Marmara Region. We are among the global top 5 firms operating in the artificial intelligence and autonomy of tractors. We aim at preventing agricultural efficiency and want to be beneficial to the sector and farmers. We are a firm whose hands are on keyboard and whose feet are on soil. We continue to grow in this sector with the help of different levels of artificial intelligence software developed by our Software and R&D teams. This system provides quite beneficial results in respect of plant counting, weeding, agriculture efficiency analysis, and minimizing the losses of crops. The studies we conducted showed an 8 per cent of wastage per decares when conventional ways are used. With. Move On, tractors are sensitively positioned on the field and products may be harvested in most optimum way. This also helps avoid losses arising during the harvest. Our studies for international markets is also in progress. We intend to add value to our county via the income we obtain from international markets.”

Ömer Faruk Koç also added that they are excited to be meeting with the producers and firms in Antalya region for the first time through the Growtach fair thay they will be participating this year.