Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies with more than 24,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to their purpose: Bringing plant potential to life. Through world-class science, global reach and commitment to their customers they help to increase crop productivity, protect the environment and improve health and quality of life.Syngenta is a world-leading agribusiness.They are committed to sustainable agriculture farming with future generations in mind. they contribute to that in many ways, for example by raising productivity through innovative research and new technology.Their company provides two main types of products: seeds and crop protection. These help growers worldwide raise the quantity and quality of their crops.Over the next 20 years, the worlds population will rise by about another two billion. Calorie demand will grow even faster, as diets in countries such as China increasingly shift to meat.

Syngenta was created in 2000. But their experience with plants goes back many decades. All around the world, their scientists work with a vast range of crops in local conditions, and share their insights globally. Syngenta understands the language of plants, and brings their potential to life – in larger U.S. corn harvests, for example, and more vigorous Brazilian soybeans. By enabling smallholders in developing countries to grow an extra crop each year, thus improving nutrition and raising income. Through healthier vegetables at affordable prices, or more beautiful flowers for greater enjoyment. And in many, many other ways.Bringing plant potential to life is their company purpose. We achieve it by working to our values: Innovation, Intensity, Health and Performance.Their Crop Protection and Seeds pipelines (see pages 25 and 29) provide clear evidence of the common direction and interlinkage of their research.

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