Syngenta Agronomy Solution team would raise farmers’ technological awareness and productivity to a higher level

By: Trademagazin Date: 2025. 05. 29. 10:20

The obvious challenges of agriculture – climate change, increasing weather stress – require a new approach from agricultural players in terms of agricultural technology. The newly formed Agronomy Solution team of Syngenta, one of the world’s leading agricultural companies, aims to find solutions that promote more efficient, profitable and sustainable agricultural production through theoretical knowledge and practical experience, as well as close cooperation and shared learning with producers.

“Due to climate change and technological changes, old routines are becoming less and less effective. Producers basically choose hybrids based on performance, while the results, quantity and quality of the crop are also influenced by many other factors. We need to recognize these, then exploit the advantages and mitigate the disadvantages. The main goal of our Agronomy Solution team is to collect as much information as possible about the theoretical and practical elements of production technologies by working closely with producers and learning together, as this is the only way we can develop well and effectively. Our team members focus on sunflower, corn and cereal crops, in line with Syngenta’s long-term strategy, which is based on producer cooperation, data-based decision-making supported by digital solutions and sustainable practices”,

explained András Zilahi, head of Agronomy Solution.

The basis of the Agronomy Solution’s tasks is the 6-ton program that has been running in sunflower for years and the refinement of the nitrogen recommendation for sunflower. Almost 50 companies nationwide have been participating in the work of the Sunflower Workshop, which is unique in Europe, for years. Syngenta experts have been collecting data for the third year in order to reduce the carbon footprint and are conducting analyses based on the development of a crop rotation technology offer. Based on the results and experiences of the 6-ton program, Syngenta developed the Nutrition nutrient replacement proposal, which can now reach a much wider group of producers.

The focus of the professional work here so far has been rational nutrient management, but experiments have also been conducted in the fields of row spacing and plant number, soil cultivation, soil mulching, and biostimulant treatments, with a strong emphasis on the introduction of sustainable agriculture. Building on the successful sunflower program, Syngenta launched the Every Seed Counts program in cereal crops, and the team is also working on a nutrient and plant number recommendation model for corn to provide reliable, data-based producer recommendations by examining the technological elements of all three strategic crops.