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Integrated solutions for the farm and beyond

Our business operations unit, BioScience, is a seed business that uses plant biotechnology and modern plant breeding techniques to improve the quality of crops and vegetables. Together with Crop Protection, BioScience offers an integrated portfolio of high quality seeds, trait technologies and high performance crop protection products.

BioScience activities are focused on the areas vegetable seeds and agricultural seeds.

Vegetable seeds - researching, breeding, processing and marketing high quality vegetable seeds and services
Our subsidiary Nunhems is a leading international developer and supplier of high quality vegetable seed and services. We market 2,500 vegetable varieties covering 28 vegetable crops around the globe to professional growers, plant propagators, seed dealers as well as the fresh produce and food processing industries. Our main crops include carrots, onions, tomatoes, leeks and melons.

AgSeeds - holding a strong competitive position in high value markets
Our AgSeed focuses on improving the agronomic performance of three strategic crops: cotton, canola and rice, using modern plant breeding and plant biotechnology innovations.

•	Rice
	Arize® hybrid rice offers a high-yield, high-quality solution requiring less seed per hectare than conventional rice. » more

•	Canola
	InVigor® offers vigorous growth characteristics, high yield potential as well as the ability to withstand environmental stresses specific to the varied Canadian landscapes and its many extremes. » more

•	Cotton
	With our cotton varieties we offer farmers high performances in lint yield and quality, with the inclusion of leading technologies available for insect and herbicide resistance. » more

We aim to market the technology we develop not just in our own seed products, but also - with the help of our partners - for other crops such as corn and soybeans.

[ last update: Monday, May 26, 2008 ]