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Syngenta works hard to ensure a safe and affordable food supply. Learn about one of the products that Syngenta helps to produce coffee.
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Apiary Worker/Beekeeper
An apiary worker, often called a beekeeper, maintains and manages colonies of honeybees for the production of honey as well as to provide pollination services. Beekeepers will also construct hives, replace combs and collect and package any hive products including honey, beeswax and pollen. Additionally, they must maintain strict control over diseases and pests and identify and report hive health concerns. LEARN MORE
Fisheries Technician
A fisheries technician oversees and assists in the daily work to be completed at a fishery. They ensure fish are well and fed and are responsible for general maintenance around the facility. Additionally, they assist biologists and technicians in various natural resource management or research activities. They also provide technical support and assistance to personnel engaged in fish production and freshwater mussel propagation. LEARN MORE
Syngenta is enhancing biodiversity and protecting waterways while ensuring safe, nutritious and responsible food production. Syngenta is focusing its efforts on mitigating agriculture's impact on climate change while accelerating innovation for farmers, nature and society. Sustainability is key if we are to continue to meet the nutritional demands of the growing population.
What does this part of the food value chain look like?
Syngenta is focusing their efforts on mitigating agriculture's impact on climate change while accelerating innovation for farmers, nature and society. Syngenta develops innovative crop protection, chemicals and seeds to meet industry challenges head on.
Combined Area Proficiency This award area recognizes those that have an SAE that can combine both placement and entrepreneurship records. Does this fit your SAE? Farm & Agribusiness Management CDE Compete while learning business skills and applying economic principles to agricultural business. New Century Farmer Conference Interested in production agriculture? Join an elite group through National FFA to attend this exciting conference to advance your leadership, career and personal skills.
When thinking about production, it is important to keep the end product and those producing the end product in mind. Syngenta has six key steps in their “Good Growth Initiative Plan” to address the challenges of soil loss, disappearing biodiversity and producers living in poverty. Making crops more efficient is crucial to be able to utilize the shrinking amount of farmland, while increasing yields to still feed the population. Currently, millions of hectares of soil are too depleted to produce food. Syngenta is working to change farming practices to reduce soil loss. Sustainable agriculture relies on biodiversity for plant breeding, pollination and food diversity. But with biodiversity declining fast as species' habitats are lost, and climate change increases the risks, Syngenta is working to promote and enable action to reverse this trend. Many of the world’s farmers are “smallholders” and farm on less than two hectares of land. Syngenta is working to help these individuals prosper through tools and training to help increase productivity. Producer safety is also crucial to food production. Syngenta is working to [...]
