BOSS MAGAZINE > Batyr Ravshanov: we promote the culture of berry consumption in turkmenistan

We Change the way agriculture of berries are done in the region and with this we promote the culture of berry consumption in Turkmenistan.

I am Batyr Ravshanov Ramazanovich. I have begun strawberry production in modern greenhouse as a side business in 2017, however horticulture and using scientific approach in growing strawberries turned out to be very interesting topic and over time became one of our main business lines. Since then we have 10 folded growing area from 6000m2 to 62000m2, becoming one of top 5 producers in the region and quadrupled production from one hectare from 25MT to 100 MT per hectare. We were the first industrial berry producers in Turkmenistan and now are the biggest, in fact all other producers together produce less than the third of our production. Nowadays we heavily improve our own seedling production, which makes us even more productive and import independent.

Turkmenistan historically was not the place where berries are consumed and we made strawberries from marginal product an ordinary one, in addition making them better in quality and taste. Our aim is making them affordable to all our consumers in the region. 

We grow sweetest, freshest and juiciest strawberry in Turkmenistan and always work on improving quality, packaging, distribution, cold chain and our service. We have fleet of our own refrigerated trucks, which ensures freshest delivery. Our products are on the shelves on the day of harvest.

In our greenhouses we are committed to reducing our footprint and heavily work on water and energy saving. Our production and administration are heavily driven by women, making gender equality one of our core values. Our company makes self-improvement for our team affordable by paying all the courses, including language learning, agronomy, finances and many others, thus encouraging our team to be always improving. 

We are working with almost all of the companies in retail, HORECA and wholesale. For international partnerships we are interested to work with breeding companies to work on strawberry varieties that are suitable for our climate and better in qualities, like Flevo Berry, Viveros California, UC Davis university. Also interested in working with worldwide berry producers like Driscolls and other major growers.