21.09.2012
- British scientists have shot down a study on declining honeybee populations that triggered a French ban on a pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta. France's farm...
21.09.2012
- Syngenta, the world's No.1 agrobusiness company, is buying Belgian seed firm Devgen for €403 million ($522 million), paying a hefty premium to boost its position in rice and close...
20.09.2012
- BASF, the world's largest chemicals maker, is to buy U.S. crop protection company Becker Underwood from buyout firm Norwest Equity Partners for $1.02 billion to boost its farming...
19.09.2012
- In a study that prompted criticism from other experts, French scientists said on Wednesday that rats fed on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) corn or exposed to its top-selling...
19.09.2012
- Syngenta announced today that it has agreed to acquire Pasteuria Bioscience, a US-based biotechnology company. Since 2011 Syngenta and Pasteuria have had an exclusive global...
16.09.2012
- Syngenta, the world's largest agrochemicals firm, expects to significantly ramp up sales of its drought-tolerant corn seeds in the United States as a historic drought ravages the...
16.09.2012
- A U.S. farmer group on Tuesday dropped its opposition to efforts by Dow AgroSciences to roll out a new biotech crop system in exchange for some concessions by Dow, including help...
29.08.2012
- Syngenta said it would buy DuPont's professional products insecticide business for $125 million in cash to expand the Swiss company's range of pest-control products. Under the...
