Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. announced that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Great Harvest Agri Chemicals Corporation. GHAC plans to register and commercialize MBI’s REGALIA® biofungicide in the Philippines. Regalia stimulates a plant’s innate ability to fight diseases while delivering better yield and improved harvest quality. Local trials have shown Regalia’s benefits in combatting the ever-present black sigatoka disease in bananas, with comparable performance to the leading chemical pesticide. The Philippines has 60,000 hectares in banana production, and treatments to control this yield-robbing disease are applied 52-60 times per year.