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The agrochemical giants challenged to reinvent themselves

2021-01-19T19:10:32.705Z


BASF, Bayer and other Syngenta want to step up their efforts in biocontrol and digital by 2030. The transition is already underway. Faced with the Brussels objective of reducing the use of plant protection products by 50% within ten years, the giants of plant protection are accelerating their adaptation to the imperatives of ecological transition. In 2019, volume sales of phytosanitary active substances sold to the French farm thus fell by 30% according to the UIPP, which brings together pla


The transition is already underway.

Faced with the Brussels objective of reducing the use of plant protection products by 50% within ten years, the giants of plant protection are accelerating their adaptation to the imperatives of ecological transition.

In 2019, volume sales of phytosanitary active substances sold to the French farm thus fell by 30% according to the UIPP, which brings together plant protection manufacturers in France (BASF, Bayer, Syngenta, Corteva, etc.).

Although a storage effect in 2018 explains this sharp drop, it is also a long-term trend in France, with the gradual ban of products such as glyphosate or neonicotinoid insecticides (temporarily reintroduced at the end of 2020).

Conclusion: in 20 years their volumes have dropped by 56%.

And in 2019, the turnover in France of the twenty companies members of the union fell by 5.3%, to 1.87 billion euros.

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Source: lefigaro

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