Africa: Bayer CropScience boosting agriculture with smallholders

Bayer CropScience is committed to helping raise agricultural productivity in Africa, says Christian Asboth, the company's Senior Vice President for Africa, Middle East and CIS.

During a high-level business panel on “Making Business Work and Fit for Africa”, Asboth emphasized the urgent need for a sustainable introduction of modern technologies, with a strong focus on smallholder farmers in Africa to boost productivity.

“Over the last years we have seen a strong development of agriculture in Africa, but the challenges of the next decades can only be solved if smallholder farmers are empowered to sustainably pilot their own success,” he said, noting that the lack of access to production inputs such as fertilizers, high-quality seeds, innovative crop protection solutions, machinery and other important farming tools negatively affects agricultural production.