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Bayer CropScience and RAGT Semences sign agreement for the improvement of wheat

27-06-2011. Bayer CropScience and the privately-owned company RAGT Semences S.A.S., based in Rodez, France, have signed a license and cooperation agreement. Under the agreement, RAGT grants Bayer CropScience access to winter wheat germplasm and associated molecular markers. The French company has one of the strongest winter wheat breeding programs in Europe. In addition, both companies will explore joint projects to further improve wheat breeding and RAGT will have options to license wheat traits from Bayer CropScience. Financial details were not disclosed.
“We are very excited about our partnership with RAGT and the opportunities it will bring in the future. This mutually beneficial agreement will further strengthen the wheat breeding programs of both partners,” said Sandra E. Peterson, Chairman and CEO of Bayer CropScience. “This licensing and cooperation agreement is another important step to achieve our goal: To improve sustainable cereal production with superior solutions based on our leading crop protection portfolio, agricultural service solutions and best in class wheat varieties. These solutions will enable growers to increase the productivity of wheat in a sustainable way addressing challenges like climate change.” For Daniel Segonds, Chairman of RAGT Executive Board, “this agreement represents a major step for RAGT in further expanding its solid position in the European wheat seed market.”
Wheat is a key crop for both partners that deserves huge research efforts involving both conventional and new breeding techniques in order to address the future challenges in agriculture. “Thanks to Bayer CropScience’s strong traits portfolio and the company’s unique skills in advanced technology, combined with its commitment and means to address these new challenges, Bayer CropScience certainly represents the ideal partner for us,” said Daniel Segonds. “We are convinced that this cooperation will be a source of sound solutions for European growers, and will highly benefit both partners,” he added.

Key figures about wheat
With about 25 percent of the global agricultural land under wheat cultivation, it is the largest cereal crop in terms of acreage and one of the world’s most important staple foods. Wheat is the second most-produced cereal crop after corn with more than 650 million tons produced every year. Wheat productivity is increasing at less than 1 percent annually, while the annual global demand is growing at approximately double that percentage. Main wheat producing regions are Australia, the Black Sea Region, China, the European Union, India and North America.

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Value Chain of French Cereals Market

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Source: Académie d’Agriculture de France 2004:10

While figures are from 2003/2004 and outdated, the value chain and supply channels are not.

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Bayer CropScience Research is Moving Closer to Suppliers and Customers

Michiel van Lookeren Campagne, Global Head of BioScience Research

(C) Bayer CropScience May 2009. Michiel van Lookeren Campagne, Global Head of BioScience Research talks about the role of the Belgian Gent site, plans for North Carolina and how his company aims to achieve a global presence.

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The interview took place shortly before Dr van Lookeren left for Syngenta at North Carolina

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