Reducing agriculture’s carbon footprint while helping farmers become more resilient

Abstract:

Syngenta encourages growers to adopt climate-smart practices that help them optimize inputs, reduce soil-based carbon emissions and build crop resilience to changing weather patterns. We have long worked with farmers to increase soil health. Under our new Good Growth Plan, we are now extending our focus to measure the amount of carbon dioxide that is captured in the soil, helping farmers manage and reduce the greenhouse gases contributed by agriculture. We have set targets to measure and enable carbon capture and mitigation in agriculture and enhance biodiversity and soil health on three million hectares of rural farmland. Digital and remote sensing technologies are important to support the change we would like to help growers achieve.