About Syngenta New Zealand

About Syngenta New Zealand

At Syngenta, our role is to empower growers to meet the evolving challenges of farming – driving sustainable productivity, feeding the world safely, and taking care of the planet.

We deliver sustainable technologies that help farmers increase productivity, improve soil health, boost yields, and support environmental resilience.

In New Zealand and Australia, Syngenta and its legacy companies have been supporting growers since the 1920s, tailoring global innovation to local conditions.

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Innovation with purpose

Bringing one new active ingredient to market is no easy feat – it requires an investment of approximately $300 million and takes over 10 years. By combining global science with deep local knowledge, we bring practical, proven solutions to New Zealand growers. Our innovation is grounded in local conditions, tested in the field, and built around our customers’ needs.

Innovation at the source: Inside Syngenta's Swiss research & development facilities

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Delivering on sustainability

Sustainable, science-based agriculture is at the core of everything we do. Our work is guided by four Sustainability Priorities, designed to drive positive change across the food system and embed sustainability in every aspect of our business.

Our Sustainability Priorities

Read about the four global sustainability priorities from Syngenta, each with clear targets to drive positive change in agriculture and embed sustainability across all aspects of our business.

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Crop Protection

We are accelerating the discovery of more effective and sustainable Crop Protection products to enhance agricultural productivity worldwide.
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Vegetable Seeds

We are unlocking the potential of plants to create the crops of the future through precision genomics and phenomics, predictive GxExM and robotics and IoT.
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Seedcare™

Syngenta Seedcare™ offers an industry leading product portfolio based on its world-class research, product development and support capabilities.

Syngenta is a global company with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. 30,000 employees, in more than 100 countries are working to transform how crops are grown and protected.

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Syngenta operates in more than 100 countries

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More than 30,000 people work for Syngenta globally

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Patents across seeds varieties, crop protection and solutions