Stated Achim Noack, Member of the Bayer CropScience Board of Management responsible for Product Supply: "The vegetable seed business is of outstanding importance for Bayer CropScience. Our objective is to exploit this good technological position in order to achieve stronger growth in this segment in the future."
"Bayer CropScience is making this investment to develop new solutions that will help producers boost their yields and increase their productivity, with appropriate plant traits that meet consumers' quality requirements," explained Douwe Zijp, CEO of Nunhems, the vegetable seed business of Bayer CropScience.
Added Dr. Paul Rubitschek, Managing Director of HILD: "The high technical quality of our seed is a precondition for success and customer satisfaction. This extended seed technology facility will enable us to better meet the individual needs of our customers in future."
For the new building, HILD acquired the 4,700 m2 area of land located next to its existing site in late 2009. HILD's Marbach site, where its team of 75 employees breeds and processes new varieties of radish, herbs such as chives, parsley, basil, dill, and other crops, now covers an area of more than 17 hectares. In 1989, HILD was the first breeding company in Germany with protected varieties to also produce and market certified organic seeds. In addition to its sales to professional horticultural producers, HILD also markets seed for the home garden sector worldwide via repacking companies.
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales of EUR 6.830 billion (2010), is one of the world’s leading innovative crop science companies in the areas of crop protection, non-agricultural pest control, seeds and traits. The company offers an outstanding range of products and extensive service backup for modern, sustainable agriculture and for non-agricultural applications. Bayer CropScience has a global workforce of 20,700 and is represented in more than 120 countries. This and further news is available at: http://www.press.bayercropscience.com.
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