UK VEGETABLE SEEDS BROCHURE 2022-2023 - Flipbook - Page 4
Breeding to Meet
the Next Green Revolution
Vegetable crop genetics offer the first step to tackle many of the difficult
challenges currently impacting on the profitability of UK growers. Syngenta is at
the forefront of delivering varieties developed to meet growers’ changing needs.
Your variety selection will have a major influence on
business performance at all levels, from practical agronomy
decisions, to resolving labour shortages, managing
increasing costs, coping with changing climate, creating
innovative markets and, ultimately, satisfying the endconsumer.
Now, with the industry’s extra focus on delivering a
reduction in carbon emissions, variety choice will be crucial
in driving towards net zero targets.
For our specialist vegetable and salad crop variety
breeders, high yield remains a key objective for any new
development. However, greater focus on the traits for
efficiency of production and marketability could lead to
improved overall profitability and business sustainability.
Working with our dedicated UK field team to tailor variety
characteristics best suited to a farm’s individual situation
can deliver better returns for the current season and justify
investment in your business for the future.
Making more efficient use of every input will be crucial
for lowering costs and reducing environmental impacts of
production. With escalating fertiliser costs, for example,
varieties available now that perform well – or in some cases
better – under a low-nutrition regime offer real benefits.
Drought and heat tolerance will be essential variety
attributes to make more effective use of water resources in
the future.
Breeding varieties with the resilience to cope with climate
extremes better assures consistent and predictable
production for you and your customers. Syngenta’s panEuropean and global reach gives access to vegetable crop
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genetics and experience that will be invaluable for UK
growers to adapt.
Today’s Syngenta variety selection could enable UK growers
to supply an extended season of home-grown produce in
demand from customers – reducing costs, challenges and
carbon footprint of long-distance transport.
With labour availability now a major issue for growers
across Europe, which has been amplified in the UK since
Brexit, means mechanical harvesting and processing
requires significant investment from growers. Varieties
bred with the robustness and uniformity to suit mechanical
harvesting systems are essential for the exciting technology
to be effectively utilised and to justify the investment.
Furthermore, Syngenta’s development of vegetable and
salad varieties that require less trimming and processing
helps to save time and cost on packing lines, as well
as reducing waste right through to the retail shelf and
enhanced end-consumer satisfaction.
For the future, varieties that will perform consistently well
in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) systems will become
increasingly important. Interpreting responses to biological,
biopesticide and biostimulant inputs is only possible
through extensive trials and specialist understanding of
plants’ genetic potential.
The continued ability of UK vegetable and salad growers to
adapt to new challenges is ever more important. Syngenta
seed breeders and our UK field teams are committed to
developing and supporting the exciting and innovative
varieties highlighted in this catalogue, that will meet your
needs now and in the future.