Research orientations dictated by market demands

For thousands of years, mankind has been improving plants in order to benefit fully from the riches that nature has to offer. Until recently the approach was empirical, but today's seeds producers benefit from technological advances. Limagrain improves plants and extends this know-how to processing activities in the agri-food chains.

Professional skills based on innovation in plants

Innovation has always been behind the main evolutions in agriculture. Progress accomplished in mechanization, fertilization, plant protection and, above all, in plant breeding, have enabled us to increase the quantities and qualities of agricultural production to meet the needs of mankind.

Plant improvement, the vocation of seed companies, is merely an extension of what can be obtained from the work of Man. For nearly 10,000 years, Man has continually been domesticating the living world, first empirically, and then scientifically. Selecting the finest ears, the finest grain, the finest fruit in order to sow them back into the soil, mobilizing his imagination to create and improve his resources and methods without relent, he has always helped plants evolve to improve their characteristics. Nevertheless for plant breeders, the creation of a new variety remains the result of a long process, seven to ten years of work. Today this profession is considerably accelerating the process through the use of biotechnology. Our knowledge of plant genomics and transgenesis, with the accompanying tools, is speeding up genetic progress.

Solutions for each market

Limagrain meets the present and future needs of its customers: farmers, growers, distributors, food industrialists and consumers.

The Group imagines and distributes field seeds (corn, wheat, barley, rape, sunflower, etc.) and vegetable seeds (tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, melons, etc.), suited to different climates and soils for each market in the world. The Group has long been developing cereal products, creating food and non-food ingredients and innovative bakery products. Limagrain also organizes traced grain production.

Limagrain is actively present in the improvement of genetic resources, plant breeding, seed production and cereal production. It is involved from the germplasm right through to the finished product, all the way through the integrated chain.