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Target 400 Program


Conveying Knowledge to Safeguard Harvest Yields


It is easier for economically successful farmers not to employ children.
It is easier for economically successful farmers to do without cheap labor such as children. That’s why it is a general goal of many of the programs run by Bayer BioScience Pvt. Ltd. to lastingly improve the earnings situation of its seed producers.

The “Target 400” program initiated in 2006 also contributes to this goal. The name is based on the ambitious target of increasing the seasonal yield to 400 packages of cotton seed per hectare. By way of comparison, the typical yield before the program was launched was between 260 and 300 packages.


Bayer CropScience employees provide the farmers with intensive instruction in Good Agricultural Practice.
In specially developed training courses, the farmers are equipped with extensive methodological skills regarding crop cultivation – from pre-paring the soil to the proper and safe use of suitable crop protection products to important measures following harvesting. Bayer Crop-Science employees provide the farmers with intensive instruction in these matters. In this connection, the farmers also learn how to operate in accordance with Good Agricultural Practice.

More than 1,500 farmers in three Indian states have already reached the Target 400 in 2008.

[ last update: Monday, December 8, 2008 ]