Tat Gıda continues to make a difference in its sector by implementing applications that provide solutions to increase communication with farmers and support their development. Tat Foodheld for the seventh time this year. Digital Field Day in its activity; 22 different companies, Start Ups, universities and research centers working on digital agricultural sensors and applications, plant nutrition and protection products, seed and seedling types, precision and smart agriculture technologies, drone, satellite and image processing technologies, agricultural machinery and equipment set up stands. introduced its innovative solutions and the number of participants at the event reached 600.
Karacabey District Governor Hakan Kafkas, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Agricultural Marketing Department Head Ahmet Turan Gürkan, Bursa Provincial Director of Agriculture and Forestry İbrahim Acar, Karacabey District Director of Agriculture and Forestry Davut Aytek, Mustafakemalpaşa District Director of Agriculture and Forestry Kamil Dinçer Uslu, President of Karacabey Chamber of Agriculture attended the event. Erhan Erdem and YeniÇiftçi Platform Founder Emrah İnce attended.
Agriculture and Food Sector is of Strategic Importance for Our Country
Emphasizing the importance Tat Gıda attaches to the development of farmers and agriculture and the pioneering work done on digital agriculture, Tat Gıda Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors ve General Manager Veysel Memiş In his speech at the opening of the event, he said: “As Tat Gıda, we know the strategic importance of the agriculture and food sector in which we operate for our country. Since our establishment, we have been continuing our work in this context together with our farmers and stakeholders without slowing down. We aim to contribute to the development of the sector at this event where we come together every year. We all know that healthy generations can only be built with healthy nutrition. The basis of healthy nutrition begins with the agricultural activities we carry out in these lands, and then continues with the preparation of the produced products in the highest quality in food businesses and reaches our tables. As Tat Gıda, we are moving forward by working together with our producers and stakeholders for the future of sustainable agriculture. We continue our digital agriculture activities, which we have progressed step by step over the years, in this direction. With the increasing population, the need for food also increases and the climate crisis has negative effects on agriculture. Increasing quality and efficiency in agriculture is only possible with technology and new methods. We first share the technologies and methods we apply in our own agricultural areas, and then with our farmers. Due to the impact of the climate crisis, fresh water resources in the world are decreasing. It is very pleasing that drip irrigation systems are widely used in tomato farming. However, more is needed to provide the right amount of water at the right time to suit the needs of the plant. We are testing artificial intelligence-supported solutions for optimum irrigation on our own Tat Gıda agricultural lands. We want to be a pioneer in this field by disseminating successful results to our farmers. As Tat Gıda, we observed that all our farmers use our renewed mobile application, and we were happy. With Tat Mobile Application, we share information such as weather forecast, satellite image analysis, appropriate pesticide techniques and tractor usage times. At the same time, our farmers can view delivery and contract information from the application. "In addition, for the first time this year, they will be able to learn digitally the delivery and quality information for each vehicle delivered."
“We Want to Attract Our Youth to Agriculture”
Referring to the importance of contract production Veysel Memiş He continued: “We attach great importance to contracted agriculture. Tat Gıda is the first company to initiate the contract farmer practice in tomato farming. We are proud to have achieved such a first. Digitalization in the field makes a big difference in agriculture. For this reason, it is one of our priorities for our producers to monitor their fields digitally. We direct our farmers to use Satellite Technologies to remotely monitor plant health in the field. This year, we are monitoring plant health in a total area of 12 thousand decares through satellite image analysis. This year, we are carrying out the Digital Transformation Program, which we started last year, with 3 farmers in 25 regions: Mustafakemalpaşa, Karacabey and Torbalı. For this purpose, we installed digital agricultural stations and camera insect stations in our farmers' fields. It is important to see disease risks early and intervene in time. We use artificial intelligence-supported solutions for this. Last year we used fewer chemicals with 22% fewer active ingredients. We care about practices that protect soil, water, our world and our natural resources. We provide our farmers with information on subjects such as production, agricultural technologies, developments in agriculture, and protection of natural resources. We came together with 100 farmers since last year. We aim to reach 500 farmers by the end of the year and 2026 by 1200. It is very important that young people show interest in agriculture. We want to attract our youth to agriculture, we will organize various trainings for this. We will offer this important opportunity to 150 young people in the first stage. “We aim to increase this number in the future.”
Speaking at the event Head of Agricultural Marketing Department Ahmet Turan Gürkan Referring to the importance of agriculture for our country; “We provide added value to both the country's economy and the region through agricultural activities. Factors such as water shortage, climate change, the pandemic and some developments in the nearby geography emphasized that we, as a country, need to plan our food supply balance well. Another important issue in the field of agriculture is contract production. We attach importance to expanding contract production and agricultural insurance to prevent fluctuations in the product market and protect both farmers and consumers. We also support the steps taken in this regard. "We thank Tat Gıda for this important event that brings together the current developments and innovations with the producers," he said.
Emrah İnce, Founder of the New Farmer Platform In his speech at the event, he touched upon the benefits of digitalization in agriculture and added that Tat Gıda has taken important steps in digital agriculture.
At the event, which attracted great interest from farmers and guests, Agrovisio, Altıntar, BASF, BASF Nunhems, Bayer, İzmir Agricultural Technology Center (İTTM), Doktar, Ege University, FarmLabs, Koyuncu Tarım Move On, Orgatek, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (PRESENTATION). ), Syngenta, Tat Gıda, Tekno Kurgu, Teta Teknik Tarım, TOPRAQ, Toros Tarım, Türk Traktör, Türkiye İş Bankası and İmece Mobil took part in the United Genetics stand.
The event ended after the companies that set up stands were presented with plaques for their contributions.
Source: HORECA Trend and Tat Food