Syngenta Appoints Jeff Cecil as President of North America Crop Protection
Jeff Cecil succeeds Vern Hawkins, who will retire from the business leadership role after more than 40 years with Syngenta
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Jeff Cecil succeeds Vern Hawkins, who will retire from the business leadership role after more than 40 years with Syngenta
Read More15 October 2026, São Paulo: Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) has provisionally reinstated the registration of Syngenta’s widely used insecticide
Read More12 October 2026, São Paulo: Brazil’s health regulator ANVISA has added the active ingredient metproxibiciclona (known internationally as metproxybicyclone) to its official
Read More22 September 2026, Switzerland: Syngenta has announced EXORT™ technology, a new biological platform based on naturally occurring plant microRNAs that the company
Read More10 September 2026, Basel: Syngenta Crop Protection AG and Amoéba have signed an exclusive supply and distribution agreement covering a next-generation biocontrol
Read More05 August 2026, Switzerland: Hengde Qin has officially assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Syngenta Group, marking the beginning of
Read More15 July 2026, Israel: Syngenta has entered into a strategic partnership with Groundwork BioAg to commercialize mycorrhiza-based biological products and soil carbon
Read MoreInterview by Nimish Gangrade, Editor, Global Agriculture 13 July 2026, New Delhi: India has evolved from being merely a large crop protection market
Read More04 June 2026, Switzerland: Syngenta and Ascribe Bioscience have signed a development and supply agreement for PHYTALIX®, a biofungicide designed to enhance
Read More16 May 2026, Spain: Syngenta has opened a new R&D Technology Center in El Ejido, Almería, Spain, focused on reducing vegetable seed breeding
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