Syngenta Annual Review 2010 - CEO Water Mandate

Syngenta
Annual Review 2010
Creating our offer
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Through expansion of R&D activities and partnerships
in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe, we can tap
into local scientific expertise and gain useful insights
for future growth.
Our site in Goa, India, is at the center of our efforts to
accelerate new product development through closer
interaction between research and process chemists.
We completed the expansion of the facility there at the
end of 2010. We are also building up our biotechnology
center in Beijing, China, which focuses on early-stage
evaluation of genetically modified traits. In Singapore,
we opened a new center for formulation development
and marker-assisted breeding technology.
Integrated solutions for specific needs
We introduced a number of innovative technologies
in 2010. This included our new insect control trait
technology in corn, AGRISURE VIPTERA , which was
launched in the US and received a prestigious Agrow
Award in the Best Novel Agricultural Biotechnology
category. And a new mode of action cereal fungicide,
isopyrazam, was launched in the UK for use in winter
and spring barley.
Syngenta scientists are committed to delivering new
solutions that can transform the productivity of world
agriculture, and meeting the stringent criteria of our
industry's regulatory environment. Our main focus is the
discovery and development of high value, high quality,
integrated products that address growers’ needs. For
example, we are developing complementary solutions
based on genetics, crop enhancement chemistry and
improved agronomic practice to improve water use
efficiency. This is a key area of concern for growers,
as competition for water resources will increase with
population growth, urbanization and through the
effects of climate change.
We have launched our first drought tolerant corn
variety in the US – AGRISURE ARTESIAN . Created
through a native traits breeding approach, it is the first
product to come from our crop genetics research that
focuses on both genetically modified (GM) and non-GM
approaches to protecting yield under water stress.
In wheat, programs using our crop enhancing
MODDUS ® have shown a 15–25 percent yield
increase, with 15 percent less requirement for
irrigation. The vigor effect on soybean treated with
CRUISER ® seed treatments leads to yield increase
through increased roots and faster development of
the crop canopy. The active ingredient in CRUISER ® ,
thiamethoxam, activates plant processes that make
crops more resilient under a variety of abiotic stress,
such as drought.
Our pipelines encompass a broad range of chemical
and biotechnology solutions, which we will
progressively merge to reflect our holistic approach
by crop. The current Crop Protection pipeline, with
peak sales potential of over $2 billion, covers all
our main product lines. In 2011, we expect the first
registration of Sedaxane, a broad spectrum seed
treatment fungicide that can protect against diseases
that are difficult to control in a number of crops.
Crop Protection pipeline
Target
launch
Lab
research
Early
development
Late
development
Peak
sales
2011–2014
PLENE
Sedaxane
Bicyclopyrone
Cyantraniliprole
SYN 192
Invinsa 1
Post 2014
Herbicide
Fungicide
Insecticide
New crop enhancer
Stress tolerance
Fungicide
Herbicide
Insecticide
Seed Care fungicide
>$1.7bn >$0.5bn
Peak sales percentage split: Corn Soybean Cereals Vegetables Rice Sugar cane Speciality Other crops
1 Invisa , a trademark of AgroFresh Inc., a subsidiary of DAS