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Turkish agrochemical industry drives for Europe ? Dr Murat Kantarci, general secretary of the Turkish crop protection association (ZIMID), talks to Robert Birkett about the dynamics of the Turkish agrochemical industry. Turkey’s agrochemical market supplies strong evidence to back the cliché of Turkey lying at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Agriculture dominates in the country, and Turkish companies make up around half of the national agrochemical market, general secretary of the Turkish crop protection association (ZIMID) Dr Murat Kantarci says. But the industry is preparing for change and looking west to the EU. Half of the companies in the pesticide market’s top ten and two of the top five were Turkish in 2007, ZIMID’s indicative figures suggest. The second-largest company in the market and Turkey’s major pesticide company was Hektas. It had a 21% share of the agrochemical market. There were three companies with over 10% of the market. The others were Bayer CropScience as the largest, accounting for 22% of the market, and Syngenta (18%). Other key Turkish companies included Koruma, Safa and Dogal. Turkey is a country of strong agricultural traditions and more than one in four Turks (27%) work in agriculture. It accounts for roughly 10% of the Turkish economy. “There are 300 registered pesticide importers, although recently around 130-140 have been active,” Dr Kantarci says. “The structure of the Turkish CPP [crop protection product] market is different to that of major European markets, for example.” Dr Kantarci notes the large share of generic products on the national market, “due to quite low requirements for me-too registrations”. Prices also tend to be lower than in Europe, he says. That impacts on suppliers’ profitability and the opportunity to launch innovations onto the market, the ZIMID chief adds. “In extreme cases, [innovative products] are delayed or not launched as they would be uncompetitive against alternative generic products.” Dr Kantarci