" WE WELCOME ALL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS WHO SHARE OUR PASSION AND MISSION OF TRANSFORMING LIVES AND CARING FOR THE PLANET ”
SYNGENTA GROUP
" WE WELCOME ALL TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS WHO SHARE OUR PASSION AND MISSION OF TRANSFORMING LIVES AND CARING FOR THE PLANET ”
FEROZ SHEIKH CHIEF INFORMATION AND DIGITAL OFFICER , SYGENTA GROUP
From that perspective , agriculture has a key role to play in getting to carbon neutrality and perhaps even reversing some of those trends . Syngenta ' s focus on helping farmers to adopt regenerative practices and monitor soil health and biodiversity is actually a conscious step in that direction .
“ These are examples where we are using agronomically , scientifically proven techniques as recommendations to the farmer through the
use of our digital tools to help them make those decisions and regenerate the land on their field .
“ Similarly , from a biodiversity perspective , there is a direct link between the biodiversity and the actual yield that the growers have .”
Soil health and degraded farmland As farmland degrades , farmers experience a drop in yield due to the reduction in soil productivity . According to Sheikh , there comes a time when the economic threshold is no longer viable , so the farmers would either have to abandon that field or turn it into pasture land for cattle grazing .
“ What it means is that the economic value that existed in that parcel of land is no longer available to the farm . It ' s our belief – in conjunction with agriculture experts , academia , and our own researchers – that through the use of regenerative agriculture practices , it ' s possible to actually turn this around .”
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