Corporate presentation

Updated February 2011

Corporate Presentation

Classification: PUBLIC

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Who we are and what we do

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies with more than 26,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to our purpose: Bringing plant potential to life.

Our Crop Protection and Seeds products help growers increase crop yields and productivity. We contribute to meeting the growing global demand for food, feed and fuel and are committed to protecting the environment, promoting health and improving the quality of life.


Global challenges


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Demand is driven by population growth and land scarcity


19602 people

2005>4 people

People fed per hectare

2030>5 people

19502.5 billion

20056.5 billion

2030

>8 billion

World population

Source: FAO, World Bank statistics, Syngenta

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Growing more with less

● Limited resources: land, water

● Changes in climatic patterns

● Environmental sustainability

● Need for innovative and integrated technology solutions


Basket: corn, soybean, wheat, rice1, %

World population growth2, bn

1 Source: USDA, January 20102 Source: UN World Population Prospects: 2008 Revision, Medium variant

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1950 2030201019901970 2050

1960 2010100

150

200

250 Yield

Acreage

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Se-ries1

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

Market Fundamentals – 2010/11

● Crop price rebound in H2- Weather related supply

concerns - Sustained Chinese

imports

● Yields back to trend after 2009 record levels

● Feed: remains the main driver of demand uncertainty

● Fundamental drivers remain: population, diet


*STU ratio for combined corn, soy, wheat and rice per USDA defined marketing season**Equally weighted basket of corn (C1 Cmdty), soybeans (S 1 Cmdty), rice (RR1 COMB Cmdty), wheat (W 1 Cmdty). Prices in $/bu and $/cwt converted to $/ton. Prices: last update 13.01.11Source: WASDE Jan 2011 for STU, Bloomberg for prices, Syngenta analysis

01/02 02/03 03/0404/0505/0606/07 07/0808/0909/10 10/11E

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100

200

300

400

Stocks-to-use ratio*%

Crop price index**

Jan 2002 = 100

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Did you know that…?

By 2050, global population will rise

by about a third to 9 billion

people

but

Global calorie demand will increase by

50%


Source: FAO, World Bank statistics, Syngenta

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Agricultural production: emerging markets drive future growth


Global field crop production*Billion tons, est.

2020 Avg 2007-

2009

Rest of World

BRIC**~75% of

global productiongrowth

Developedcountries**

Source: FAO-OECD 2010/19 Agricultural Outlook, Syngenta Analysis

* Includes: wheat, oilseeds, rice, coarse grains ** BRIC = Brazil, Russia, India, China; Developed = NAFTA, EU, Japan, Australia

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Challenges for global agriculture

● Huge rise in demand

● Limited farmland

● Limited water supplies

● Need to continue raising yields


Only sustainable approach is to unlock the potential of plants

through innovation

We must do more with less

Our industry


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40% of the world’s food would not

exist without crop protection products.

That is why the world can produce enough food to provide every person

with more than 2700 calories

per day

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Market overview 2009


Global market: ~ $72 bn

Source: Syngenta Analysis, Philips McDougall

Conventional Seeds(~ $16 bn)

Crop Protection* (~ $40 bn)

GM Seeds(~ $11 bn)

Non-Crop Chemicals (~ $5.7 bn)

*Includes Seed Treatment

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Competitors in 2009


Sources: Companies Annual/Quarterly reports, Phillips McDougall, Agreworld, Syngenta Analysis

Who we are and what we do


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We bring plant potential to life

Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies with more than 26,000 employees in over 90 countries dedicated to our purpose: Bringing plant potential to life.

Our Crop Protection and Seeds products help growers increase crop yields and productivity. We contribute to meeting the growing global demand for food, feed and fuel and are committed to protecting the environment, promoting health and improving the quality of life.


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Syngenta at a glance

● A uniquely broad product portfolio

- A leader in crop protection

- Third in high-value commercial seeds

● World-class science

- $1 billion R&D investments in 2010

- 5,000 people in R&D around the world

● Global reach and experience

- Over 26,000 employees in more than 90 countries

● Commitment to working with customers

- Tailoring solutions to individual needs


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Sustained outperformance

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20052006

20072008

20092010

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● Emerging market growth

● Crop Protection market share gain

● Doubling size of Seeds business

● New products

● Innovative marketing

● Cost, capital efficiency

Classification: INTERNAL USE ONLY

Sales $bn EPS* $

* Fully diluted basis, excluding restructuring & impairmentSource: Syngenta

CAGR+26%

1919


Syngenta products protect the potatoes for about

1,300,000 tonnes of

chips and crisps every year.


2020



1 in 6 tomatoes is

grown using Syngenta seed

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16% of the global market of

Sweetcorn, 50 million tonnes,

is from Syngenta seed


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4 million tonnes of cotton

are grown using our crop

protection products

That’s the equivalent of 20 billion T-Shirts every year


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Syngenta introduces 100 new

ornamental varieties every year


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Lawn & Garden*

Flowers

Growing Media**

Chemical Controls**

Turf & Ornamentals**

Syngenta has three businesses


Crop Protection

Selective herbicides

Non-selective herbicides

Fungicides

Insecticides

Seed care

Seeds

Corn & Soybean

Diverse Field Crops

Vegetables

* Newly established in 2008 - Financial reporting for product lines in 2008 under Crop Protection and Seeds respectively** Reported as Professional Products under Crop Protection

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Major product brands


Insecticides control pests which reduce yields by damaging crops

Fungicides prevent and cure fungal disease

Herbicides control weeds that compete with crops for light and nutrients

Seed Care products for protecting young plants against insects and disease

Seeds for corn, soybean, sugar beet, cereals, oil crops; vegetables and flowers

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Syngenta sales 2010: $ 11.6 bn


Crop Protection Seeds

$ 8.8 bn (77%)

$ 2.8 bn(23%)

Selective Herbicides (26%)

Fungicides (30%)

Insecticides (17%)

Non-selective Herbicides (11%)


Seed Care (9%)

Professional Products (5%)

Other (2%)

Corn & Soybean (58%)

Vegetables (10%)

Diverse Field Crops (23%)

Flowers (9%)

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Syngenta sales by region 2010


APAC

EAME

LATAM

NAFTA


Sales 2010: $ 3.6 bn

Sales 2010: $ 2.5 bn

Sales 2010: $ 1.8 bn

Sales 2010: $ 3.7 bn

Total sales: $ 11.6 bn

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Where our people are located


NAFTA5,022

APAC4,687

EAME12,466

LATAM4,004

TOTAL* = 26,179* FTE at December 2010

Syngenta businesses


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$ 2 649m$ 1 546m

$ 2 300m

$ 2 383m

Sales 2010: Crop Protection


Regional sales - Total $ 8.8 bn

Seed Care

Non-selective Herbicides

Selective Herbicides

Fungicides

Insecticides

$ 2 308m

$ 987m

$ 2 662m

$ 1 475m

$ 838mOthers

$ 138m

AsiaPacific

NAFTA

Europe, Africa and Middle East

Latin America

Professional Products

$ 470m

Product line sales - Total $ 8.8 bn

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Crop Protection: distinctive strategy to capture opportunities


● New product growth, strong pipeline

● Global crop strength, reach

● Creating new markets

Portfolioexpansion

Costefficiency

Tailoredbusiness models

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2010 sales: $27m +114%Peak est: >$350m 2010 sales: $87m +137%

Peak est: >$400m

New products: technology enables global growth


2010 sales: $69m +22%Peak est: >$200m

2010 sales: $276m -2%Peak est: >$350m

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Plant Performance: building leadership

Takes yields to a new level vigor, greening, drought relief

Integration of technology, know-how & skills

Protects yield potentialfull crop programs, solutions

Reduces loss single product offers

PlantPerformance

Crop Enhancement

Crop Care

Pest Control

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Sales 2010: Seeds


Asia Pacific

Europe, Africa & Middle East

Latin America

Vegetables

Corn & Soybean

Product line sales $ 2.8 bn Regional sales $ 2.8 bn

NAFTA

$ 1 281m

$ 663m

$ 249m

$ 1 047m

$ 1 234m

$ 275m

DiverseField Crops

$ 337m

Flowers

$ 524m

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Seeds: strong portfolio, depth and breadth


Corn and Soybean

● NAFTA: portfolio transformation

● Europe: germplasm expansion

● LATAM: trait, soybean growth

● APAC: leading corn germplasm

Diverse Field Crops

● Sunflower: world-leading breeding

● Sugar beet: GM success in USA

● Oilseed rape: high value hybrids

● Cereals: wheat varieties, hybrid barley

● Rice: expanding APAC potential

Vegetables and Flowers

● Marker-assisted breeding expertise

● Acquisitions

● Consumer driven innovation

Leverag

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techn

olo

gy p

latform

s

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Seeds strategy


● Corn: transform portfolio

● Soybean: US, LATAM

● Vegetables: continue share growth

● Flowers: enhance leadership

● Capture emerging markets growth

Technology platforms

Integrated offers

High growthopportunities


Seeds: market growth, technology

● Demand for higher yield drives broader technology adoption- hybrids, GM, stacks

● Increasing value● Growth across crops

Seeds and Traits market$bn

Corn & Soybean

Field Crops*

Vegetables,Flowers

2008 2020E

>$50

~$26

*Includes cereals and rice Source: Syngenta

>$35

2015E

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US corn: achieving milestones, building strength


LeadingSeed Care portfolio

Proprietarytriple stack Expanded

multi-stack options

Elite germplasm combinations

Strong distributor presence

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Corn portfolio and pipeline to meet all agronomic needs


LibertyLink®, a trademark of Bayer CropScience; Herculex®, a trademark of Dow AgroSciences LLC

Herculex® 1

Herculex® RW

Weeds Drought

Insect pressure

Triple stack +LibertyLink®

Drought tolerance

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Diverse Field Crops: broad-based growth, differentiated portfolio

● Expansion across all regions

● Sugar beet:

- broad presence in key markets

- GM technology

● Sunflower:

- Strong growth in emerging markets

- herbicide tolerance, virus resistance, disease control

Growth at constant exchange rates

2010 sales: $524m, +13%

W Europe,AME+10%

E Europe+31%

NAFTA+11%

LATAM+62%

APAC+1%

EAMELATAMAPAC

EAMENAFTA

SunflowerSugar beet

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Vegetables, Fresh Produce product innovation


● Integrated global technology network

- strength in 14 major crops

- leading native traits, marker-assisted breeding

- >140 new varieties per annum

● Cross-regional sourcing

● Piloting downstream programs

- taste, nutrition, convenience

- retail branding

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Vegetables: continuing outperformance

● 2010 market $4.3 billion: almost doubling by 2024*

● Syngenta Vegetables Seeds growth above market (+10% in both 2010 and 2011) and pricing at par

● High value crop focus: target #1 or #2 in key crops

● Industry pricing under pressure in 2010 after important increases in previous years


Growth at constant exchange rates* Source: Syngenta estimates

EAME+7%

LATAM+27%

APAC+18%

NAFTA+13%

2010 sales: $663 million, +11%

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in sugarcane: anticipating customer needs

● Germplasm, crop protection: integrated R&D

● First integrated mechanized planting system

● Launch 2011: $300m in orders to 2015

● Long term contracts with sugar mills

● Peak sales potential: >$500m

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: integrated rice program

Program components:

● High quality seedlings

● seed care

● Mechanized transplanting

● Agronomic protocol

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Chemicalcontrols

Growing media

Flowerseeds

Fertilizer

Market: $15bn

Lawn & Garden potential: professional focus

● Largest markets: NAFTA, Europe


● 2010 sales: $807m*

● Focus on Professional:

Ornamentals, Golf, Turf

● Partnerships in Consumer

● Flowers acquisitions enhance

leadership

* Flower Seeds and Professional Products

World-class science


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Some 5000 Syngenta employees

work in Research and Development

We spent around $1 billion in

2010 on R&D


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Major R&D sites located on three continents

Other sites

● Marker-assisted and seed breeding capabilities

● Global field station network

Global R&D capabilities


GREENSBOROFormulationEnvironmental Science

SBIBiotechnology

R&D

JEALOTT’S HILLChemical DiscoveryWeed ControlFormulationBioscienceEnvironmental Science

STEINFungicides, Insecticides &Professional Products

GOAChemistry

BEIJINGBiotechnologyR&D

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Value creation

Advanced output traits

New plant sciences

Long term

New business

Superior chemicals

Novel seed varieties

New crop solutions

Core businessgrowth

Medium term

Combined skills - most powerful R&T engine

Rich pipeline

Efficiency through capturing synergy

Technology leadership &

efficiency

Short term

Research and Development: engine for profitable growth


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Syngenta: a leader in research and development

* Source: Phillips MacDougall; Company section July 2009 and Agrifutura n°116, June 2009

Monsanto(20%)

Syngenta(19%)

Bayer(18.5%)

BASF (13%)

DuPont (13%)

Dow (8%)

$5.1bn investment from research based companies* Crop Protection

● Global molecules tailored to local markets

Seeds● Technology platforms● Vegetables: targeting consumer

appeal

Business Development ● Pioneering new technologies

Others(8.5%)


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Crop protection compounds: the long road to market


Discover

100’000 compounds

5000 compounds

Profile

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Evaluate

1 - 2

Support

Time

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Sedaxane(SC fungicide)

Bicyclopyrone(herbicide)

Cyantraniliproleinsecticide

SYN 192fungicide

2011

– 2

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Crop Protection pipeline: multi-crop potentialLateresearch

Earlydevelopment

Late development

Targetlaunch

Peaksales

Invinsa™, a trademark of AgroFresh Inc., a subsidiary of DAS

>$1.7bn

(stress tolerance)

Corn Soybean Cereals Vegetables Rice Sugar cane OthersSpecialty

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st 2

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Crop Protection pipeline: multi-crop potentialLateresearch

Earlydevelopment

Late development

Targetlaunch

Peaksales

Invinsa™, a trademark of AgroFresh Inc., a subsidiary of DAS

>$0.5bn

Fungicide

Herbicide

Insecticide

New cropenhancer

Corn Soybean Cereals Vegetables Rice Sugar cane OthersSpecialty

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Corn Seeds pipeline: peak sales potential >$2 billion

Launched 2010

Abiotic stress

Biotic stress

Earlydevelopment

Late development

Initiallaunches

* Approved in Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Philippines

2010

2010

Output traits

Peak

sales

>$2.0bn

post2015

Water opt., nitrogen use efficiency

2011*

2012

2010

2014next generation RW

CarbYield™post2015

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Other input traits

Soybean Seeds pipeline: peak sales potential >$700 million

Herbicide tolerance

Earlydevelopment

Late development

Initiallaunches

* Native traits

HPPD solution 2016 / 17

Rust solution 2012*

Peak

sales

>$700m

GM insect resistancepost2015

Aphid management system

Launched2010*

2nd generation HTLaunched2010

2nd generationnematode resistance

Launched2010*

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Molecular toxicology and environmental

science

BioinformaticsCombinatorial

chemistry

CroptransformationHigh throughput

screening

Marker-assistedbreeding

Biotechnology: a new paradigm for CP invention

Practical routes to novel crop varieties

Fast-tracking to market

Advancedformulation

Strength in genomics is key to building new markets

Genomics

Unique combination of technology platforms


Advancedformulation

Corporate Responsibility


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Our contribution: focused on the global challenges

● Corporate Responsibility: inherent in what we do

● Our contribution:

- increasing yields and crop quality

- improving resource efficiency in agriculture

- growing rural communities

- reducing our own footprint

- investment in R&D for the future of agriculture


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Grow more from less

Syngenta believes that farmers can

produce enough to meet the world’s needs

for food, fuel and fiber and safeguard the

only planet we have for future generations

– if we take a system-wide approach that

links technology, land and people. These

three elements build the foundation for a

sustainable production system in which

technology enables better solutions for

farmers to increase productivity and

profitability, to increase resource efficiency,

and help reach food security.


Bet

ter

solu

tions

Resource efficiency

People Land

Technology

Rural economies

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Better solutions

Choices on the farm

To ensure that farms meet their productivity potential, we need enabling and transparent regulations, to make safe technologies available to farmers.

Accelerating innovation

We need mechanisms to share innovation; protecting intellectual property helps stimulate research and development.

Sharing knowledge

Agriculture is based on knowledge supported by science; we need new partnerships to raise agronomy skills and share expertise.


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Resource efficiency

Preserving the land

We need to increase productivity on existing farmland.

High stakes for water

40% of water used for agriculture is wasted; we need solutions that increase water efficiency.

Vitality of biodiversity

Biodiversity and agriculture depend on each other; we need to protect the diversity of nature to secure our food supply and quality of life.


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Rural Communities

Building markets

Growing is not enough; farmers need supporting infrastructure and access to markets, finance and information.

Valuing farm work

Rural economies carry the weight of feeding the world; farming needs to be worthwhile and profitable.

Community development

We need agriculture to spur socio-economic development of rural communities.


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Food security: better food systems using fewer resources

● Sustainable production system

- recognizes connections between technology, land and people

● Limitation: availability of natural resources

● Improved access and distribution through enabling policies


Technology

Land People

Food Security

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Sustainable agriculture


Avoidsdeforestation

Protects economic viability of farming

Preservesbiodiversity

Suits localconditions

and capacity

Ensures soilconservation

Maintainswater quality

Protects health & safety of community

Our commitment: contribute to sustainable agriculture in the production of healthy food and the conservation of biodiversity

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Sustainable agriculture: Higher yields reduce poverty

● Our contribution to society and our business performance are mutually dependent

● Our products meet the needs of a fast-growing population


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In 2010 Syngenta trained more

than 4 million farmers in

the safe use of crop protection products

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Reducing the agricultural carbon footprint


1 CO2e – Carbon dioxide equivalents2 mainly driven by increasing and protecting yield and enabling no tillage

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Use benefitson the farm2

Syngenta operations Purchased energy Business travel Distribution Supply Farm level

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Direct Indirect

Within control Outside control

● Positive contribution to climate change

● Reduce greenhouse gas emissions relative to EBIT by 40% by 2012

● Minimum tillage, nitrogen efficiency

● Biofuels: corn amylase, tropical sugar beet, key research partnerships

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Recognizing our performance

● Our responsible actions are widely recognized by stakeholders

● Syngenta is included in FTSE4Good and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

● 84% of our employees are proud to work for Syngenta


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Syngenta Foundation: coordinated focus and execution


Landless workers

Commercial smallholder

Medium farm holder

Large farm holder

Income from agricultural activitiesNumber of land holdings

Syngenta focus

Subsistence smallholder

Foundation focus Syngenta focus

Access to markets Inadequate Moderate

Technology uptake Low Moderate to high

Infrastructure Poor Fair

Foundation focus

Segmentation for commercial smallholders


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