Fruits & Vegetables
Pioneering New Solutions for Sustainable Horticulture
Innovation is at the hear of everything we do. Our R&D teams work around the clock - and globe - to enhance productivity on the farm and drive logistical solutions throughout the entire supply chain. If we're doing it right, more people everywhere will have access to the taste, benefits and appeal of fresh produce for a tasty and nutrient-rich diet.
Accessible. Nutritious. Delicious.
Sustainable horticulture starts with our research for new modes of actoin in crop protection and culminates with the consumer enjoying healthy produce. That's why we've committed to identifying and implementing data-driven solutions across the entire global value chain to enable greater accessibility to safe, nutritious and affordable fruit and vegetables worldwide. At the same time, we're advancing innovative seed varieties that use less water and fewer resources to help care for our environment, reduce the environmental impact of our crop protection products and improve our carbon footprint.
Pioneering possibilities through data
Data is the engine that drives new possibilities, which is why developing digital technologies to accelerate innovation is one of our key drivers and commitments. Our advanced digital tools empower growers to detect plant disease before the eye can see it, monitor soil health through sensory in the ground, diligently manage residues through digital applications and create outcome-driven business models to improve grower value with our operations.
Leading the Industry
We’ve been a leader in horticulture for many decades thanks to our robust crop protection and vegetable seeds business. Through harnessing digital technologies, we’re advancing the industry’s leading products pipeline to launch the highest quality seeds and the most advanced tailored crop protection solutions—synthetic and biological—to help our grower customers produce the highest quality fruit and vegetables to market today and into the future. See what this means for us, our stakeholders across the industry, customers and consumers around the world.
Develop Innovative Products
By advancing new solutions in crop protection that complement and enrich our vegetable seeds business, we provide farmers with the tools they need to grow profitable, high-quality produce for a growing world.
Genetics
Our various breeding programs provide growers with varieties that are better able to thrive throughout the growing season and in the marketplace.
- The Torelino tomato combines improved disease resistance with high yield potential and excellent taste
- Our Curdivex™ Whitex cauliflower stays whiter for longer shelf life and heighten appeal for consumers—and retailers.
Horticultural Crop Protection
We develop a variety of innovations that enable horticulture crops to better withstand some of the many challenges they face throughout their growth. Here’s a brief look at some of our many innovations.
Synthetic
- Effective on a wide range of crops, Luna® fungicide provides unprecedented control of some of the most problematic fungal diseases to help growers deliver the best possible fruit, nuts and vegetables.
- Featuring a powerful, two-way movement, MOVENTO® helps growers control a broad range of insects, mites and nematodes—above and below ground—to create highly pest-resistant plants and healthier crops.
Biologic (BLX)
- Based on a natural active substance obtained from an extra virgin olive oil by-product, FLiPPER® is a biological insecticide that delivers broad-spectrum control of foliar pests in fruit and vegetable crops.
- Our Serenade® ASO biological fungicide is a powerful tool designed to help growers protect their crops against the devastating effects of soil and foliar bacterial and fungal diseases.
Provide Tailored Solutions on the Farm
Through digital transformation, we advance tailored outcome-driven solutions that enable farmers to increase their profitability by implementing precision farming practices, optimizing resource use, and reducing agriculture’s impact on the environment.
- ResiYou is a digital tool used to predict residue of crop protection products at the time of harvest.
- As a decision support tool, GrapeVision (OAD) helps winegrape growers monitor and forecast disease risks in vines. Visit us at Fruit Logistica to experience the pre-launch of this exciting technology.
- Root 2 Success offers a holistic approach that incorporates cultural practices, genetics, small molecules and biologics to help farmers manage different challenges such as soil-borne diseases, soil pests or nematodes.
- Encouraging smart, holistic solutions that leverage our deep understanding of regulatory guidelines, partnership opportunities and consumer preferences.
- Our GeoPotato digital platform, which launches in 2022, provides free and extremely advanced insights that recommend ideal fungicide and application timing for individual smallholder farmers to optimize their operation and improve net income by up to 20%.
Build Partnerships Around the World
For fresh produce to change the world, it must appeal to—and reach—consumers safely. That’s why we’re investing to build strong, trusting partnerships beyond the farm with our grower customers and others throughout the entire food chain to understand their needs and develop solutions that help prevent food loss and heighten consumer trust.
- Harnessing insights from consumer feedback and nutrition trends to develop solutions that benefit growers, consumers, and retailers.
- Our Food Chain Partnership collaborates with farmers, exporters, importers, traders, processors, retailers and others across our entire global food system to find solutions that help more people access fresh produce for a healthy diet.
- We’re empowering smallholder farmers around the world with solutions like our Xaman F1 tomato that resists drought and disease and our Yellow-Gold watermelon, which features a thicker rind to reduce food loss during transport.
- We help growers build better businesses by providing them with the solutions they need to satisfy ever-changing market trends, connect with retailers, surpass food safety standards, and promote transparency.
Global Opportunity
Fruit and vegetables are grown on roughly 240 million hectares of land worldwide. That’s equivalent to just under 25% of the United States.
Incredible value
300,000 tomato seeds weighs only a kilogram—and is 8x more valuable than gold for top-end glasshouse varieties.
Ongoing growth
More people are loving their fruit and vegetables, with demand projected to increase 30–50% by 2030.
Keeping crops safe
Without fungicides, 95% of grapes grown in the U.S. alone would not be suitable for human consumption due to mold—a considerable portion of an $88 billion industry.
Feeding a growing population
Every year, more than 1 billion tons of fruit and vegetables are consumed around the world by a global population of around 750 million people.
Connecting the globe
Lined up side-by-side, the combined 2013 fruit and vegetables export would stretch 920km. That’s greater than the distance from Hamburg to London.
Better innovations, faster
By strategically accelerating plant breeding, we’re currently providing growers around the world with 2,000+ seed varieties across 20+ crops.
Work with us
Meaningful partnerships are the foundation for a more sustainable horticulture, which is why we’re always seeking to build relationships with like-minded collaborators. From farm to fork, we’re working to foster trust and confidence in food safety and modern food production. If you have an idea or would like to explore what we can accomplish together, please get in touch.
