date:Sep 29, 2013
Syngenta has drawn a growth plan for next six years with a commitment to ensure sustainable farming.
With shrinking agriculture land and 200,000 more mouths to feed every day by 2020, the company has committed to improving the average yield of major crops by 20 per cent without using more land, water or inputs.
It intends to rescue 10 million hectares of farmland from the brink of degradation by improving the fertility and enhancing biodiversity on five million hectares of farm land. Akshaya M