INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

INVESTMENT IN AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES

• 04.05.2024

Ulusoy Un, Turkey's leading flour producer and exporter, invested 15,732,000 TL in Doktar Technology, an agricultural information company that provides end-to-end digitalization in the agriculture and food industry and is preferred by world giants in 36 countries with its technologies.

It is expected that the world population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050, and with the global climate crisis, there will be a decline in agricultural production and famines. In this regard, digital transformation in agriculture is of great importance as it aims to reduce fertilizer, pesticides, water use and fuel consumption while ensuring sustainability. Doktar Technology, an agricultural information company founded in 2017, stands out with its software and IoT devices in order to make agriculture healthier and more sustainable by making every agricultural decision in the world based on information and optimization. Doktar consists of integrated agricultural products and services, fields or IoT devices, satellite-radar images, digital soil analysis, etc. It aims to optimize decisions and minimize input costs by applying the obtained data to artificial intelligence models. Doktar, which is used in 36 countries around the world, has 3 offices in Wageningen, the Netherlands, and Istanbul and Izmir in Turkey, as well as a production facility in Istanbul. In addition to developing products that enable farmers to increase their productivity with technology, Doktar offers services that lead digital and green transformation to food producers and suppliers. Doktar also contributes to the future by helping major global food companies operating in many parts of the world achieve their sustainability goals, such as being net zero in carbon and water consumption.

The goal of creating an agricultural value chain 

Ulusoy Un, one of Turkey's largest food companies, which has invested in becoming a global food company in its 100th year, also makes investments in the digitalization of agriculture from field to finance. For the digitalization of agriculture and a sustainable future, Ulusoy Un invested 15,732,000 TL in Doktar Teknoloji A.Ş., preferred by world giants. In the statement made to the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP), "In line with our company's goals of supporting sustainable agriculture in our country by taking part in agricultural technology investments within the framework of its growth targets in the field of agricultural food activities, we aim to provide climate-resistant and maximum agricultural products through regenerative agriculture practices by reducing water consumption and carbon emissions in agriculture." "An investment of 15,732,000 TL was made to Doktar Teknoloji A.Ş., which carries out engineering studies to create an agricultural value chain that provides efficiency."