Agricutural business Bayer CropScience has confirmed that it will continue to invest heavily to develop integrated crop solutions, in a bid to best serve growers' needs.
Speaking at the 8th annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting (ABIM) in Basel, Switzerland, the group's vice-president of global marketing biologics, Ashish Malik, said the company would continue to invest in tools such as improved seeds and post-harvest treatments to aid production.
“Products based on biological modes of action for protection of plants against fungi, insect pests and nematodes complement our integrated offer and will help us meet customer needs,' Malik explained.
Together with seeds, traits, chemicals, services and product stewardship measures, biologicals constitute Bayer CropScience’s response to customer demand for higher yields, higher quality of harvested produce and new tools for improved resistance management.
“Targeted crop protection combining chemicals and biologicals is a new way to serve sustainable agriculture in meeting current and future challenges,” Ashish Malik points out. Indeed, the United Nations estimates global food production needs to increase by some 70 per cent by 2050 and Bayer believes biologicals can contribute to reaching this goal.
