SYNGENTA GROUP
“ AGRICULTURE HAS A KEY ROLE TO PLAY IN GETTING TO CARBON NEUTRALITY AND PERHAPS EVEN REVERSING SOME OF THOSE TRENDS ”
FEROZ SHEIKH CHIEF INFORMATION AND DIGITAL OFFICER , SYGENTA GROUP
Key benefits of regenerative agriculture :
• Improved soil health and lower carbon emissions plus carbon sequestration
• Higher yields
• Improved biodiversity
• Better and more efficient use of water
Syngenta looks at carbon neutrality or nature positive farming in a slightly more holistic sense , from a regenerative agriculture , soil health and biodiversity perspective .
“ Agriculture accounts for more than 12 % of the global emissions today , which means all of us have a role to play in the carbon conversation ”, according to Sheikh .
“ There are two or three different aspects in there . One is the emissions produced by the farming activities , as well as helping to reverse some of that through sequestration ( above ground and below the ground , when the plants absorb carbon dioxide , they effectively take that carbon out of the air and store it in the soil and as part of the biomass ).
“ And this happens because of nitrous oxide being released through the use of fertilisers , methane being released by the livestock on the field , and carbon dioxide released through the farm equipment and machinery on the field .” technologymagazine . com 79