Private Industry
Syngenta
Our purpose is Bringing plant potential to life and we’re a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.
Corteva Agriscience
Corteva Agriscience provides farmers around the world with the most complete input portfolio in the industry to enable them to maximize yield and profitability — including some of the most recognized brands in agriculture: Pioneer®, Granular®, Brevant™ seeds, as well as award-winning Crop Protection products — while bringing new products to market through its robust pipeline of active chemistry and technologies. The company is committed to working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Corteva Agriscience became an independent public company on June 1, 2019, and was previously the Agriculture Division of Dow DuPont. More information can be found at www.corteva.com.
KWS
KWS SAAT SE has a long tradition as a seed breeding company, founded in 1847 and still family-owned. Today, it is an international market leader in seed breeding, with subsidiaries worldwide and operations in more than 70 countries, optimizing genetic potential through excellent research and breeding programs and a broad crop portfolio of agricultural crops including wheat. With a turnover in excess of €1.2 billion, KWS is committed to growth. KWS has significant wheat breeding activities located in Germany, France, UK and USA and a strong network of collaborative wheat research with universities and institutes around the world.
RAGT
Founded in 1919 and established in all major European agricultural regions, RAGT Semences, produces and sells seeds including wheat, barley, oilseed rape, oats, forage grass and soil health crops.
Innovation is vital to us, that’s why we spend over 14% of our turnover in research and breeding, supporting 17 subsidiaries, 17 research stations, 280 000 experimental plots and 4 multi-species laboratories. Today, more than 775 people are working in the RAGT Seeds group, of which 280 are dedicated to research. RAGT 2n, the company’s research subsidiary, has 39 breeding programmes in 26 species, with 6 programmes dedicated to wheat breeding.
SEED CO
Seed Co Limited`s mission is to Breed, Seed, Feed and Lead in Africa. Seed Co `s cornerstone is market-oriented Research and Development in bread wheat, hybrid maize, soyabean and sorghum hybrids. Field Crop varieties are developed and bred at Seed Co`s strategically located research stations in all three corners of Africa. In order to address fully the food security needs of Africa, Seed Co thrives on a wide seed distribution network and contract grower base within its Business Units to provide suitable and adapted certified seed varieties to large and small-scale farmers across the African continent. Seed Co has 76 years’ experience in providing high quality seeds to African farmers.
INARI
Inari is embracing diversity to build a new, more sustainable food system using unsurpassed technology to unlock the full potential of seed. Through its SEEDesign™ platform, Inari unlocks new possibilities to bring step-change products to market. Founded by Flagship Pioneering in 2016, Inari is based in Cambridge, Mass., with additional sites in West Lafayette, Ind., and Ghent, Belgium. Inari is a growing team of more than 230 employees, leveraging AI and multiplex gene editing technology to meet the food system needs of the future.