Join an international cooperative group with a strong personality

Our core business is improving plants through seeds - to innovate in order to create plants that meet the expectations of farmers, industrialists and consumers. Our profession also involves valorizing these plants in the different processing stages of the food supply chains. Limagrain also runs cereal ingredients and bakery products activities, thus creating secure opportunities with higher added value for the co-op members. We aim for the long term, far from fleeting fashions.

 

Being an agricultural co-operative gives us the responsibility to be the efficient extension of our member farms, to participate in the success of our clients and to contribute to the future of agriculture and its agri-food chains. This vision of our development takes inspiration from the diversity of our partnerships in scientific, industrial and commercial fields. We know that the co-operative is a force, helping us to see closer and further.

 

Our 3,500 farmer members live on the lands of Auvergne, and every day we demonstrate our attachment to this region. From Auvergne we have spread our wings to become an international co-operative group. A strategy that enables us to find new ways to add value, to create synergies and to share out risks. We believe that in order to build and to develop over time, you need a solid base.

 

Being as close as possible to markets to permanently adapt our germplasm and our varieties, to run our subsidiaries with the right balance between delegation and responsibility – these are the guiding principles of our organization and management model. Combining respect for the Group's strategic choices and respect for local cultures, this model is the foundation for our performance. We emphasize respect for the diversity of cultures: a difference which we are keen to cultivate.

 

Innovation is at the heart of our mission: we need to improve plants to make them more resistant to insects and to diseases, more tolerant to drought, and to guarantee their nutritional qualities. We have opted for sustained investment in research, with private and public partners, since the creation of the first corn research station in 1965, right up until today and our 100 research stations. We innovate today to ensure we are competitive and make our contribution to meeting the agricultural challenges of the 21st century.

 

In order to find new plants with improved characteristics, our researchers need to broaden the genetic variability of cultivated species. So they are today, as they always have been, the keepers of biodiversity. We lobby alongside European researchers in their choice of the PVPC (Proprietary Variety Protection Certificate) over the patent for the protection of plant varieties. We wish to protect without confiscating, and pursue our research with the concern to share knowledge and enrich biodiversity.

 

Agriculture is not a commodity like others. We work closely to farmers and know that we must take into consideration challenges as vital as food security, the fight against poverty and the independence and sovereignty of states. In order to do so, it is essential that we ensure a future living for farmers, wherever they are in the world; and create the conditions for the development of fair remuneration in agricultural exchanges. This is why we actively support momagri, movement for a world agricultural organization, which proposes a number of tools and principles for the regulation and organization of international agricultural co-operation.