Zoom imageIn a rice paddy field in the southern Chinese province of Guangxi, Bayer CropScience expert Tan Kunzu explains to farmer Liang Mao Lan the advantages of targeted treatment with crop protection products.
To further expand its global hybrid rice business, Bayer CropScience has acquired worldwide exclusive licensing rights to the rice breeding program of Fazenda Ana Paula, a Brazilian company specializing in hybrid rice breeding. The agreement will allow Bayer CropScience to increase its research and development capacities for hybrid rice in Brazil. It gives the company access to the rice germplasm developed by Fazenda Ana Paula, strengthening Bayer’s existing hybrid breeding program and extending its global presence.
“Hybrid rice will play an important role in meeting the increasing demand for rice from more than half the world’s population,” says Dr. Mathias Kremer, Head of the BioScience business unit of Bayer CropScience. “Hybrid rice will have an important role to play. With Arize™, we are already a worldwide leader in hybrid rice seed, and we intend to enhance our hybrids further – with superior genetics and a world-class hybrid seed operation.”
Bayer CropScience is also among the world leaders in crop protection agents for rice.