Corteva Agriscience, a leading agricultural company in seed technology, crop protection and digital agriculture, and Symborg, a leader in agricultural biotechnology, announce a distribution agreement for a nitrogen fixation product. The alliance encompasses the markets of the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina.

Through the agreement, Symborg provides Corteva with a long-term exclusive distribution license for the endophytic bacterium Methylobacterium symbioticum, which gives plants the ability to fix nitrogen from the air on a continuous and sustainable basis. Corteva's product will be marketed under the Utrisha N brand and manages to optimize the nutritional efficiency of the crops, helping to maximize the crop yield potential in a sustainable way. It will be available for a wide range of crops, including all field crops, plus sugar cane, meadows, ornamentals and pastures. The agreement also allows Corteva to co-distribute the product in intensive crops together with Symborg.

"Corteva Agriscience continues to bring new and innovative solutions to the market, offering naturally derived products that work in a complementary way to our conventional crop protection solutions, such as Optinyte Nitrogen Stabilizer," says Susanne Wasson, President, Protection Business Platform Corteva Agriscience Crop Manager "We are excited to be working with Symborg to expand and maximize sustainable options that help farmers meet changing environmental expectations, while keeping their crops productive and healthy."

This collaboration represents another step forward in Corteva's global biologics portfolio, focused on the development of biostimulants, biocontrol products and pheromones with proven and predictable performance. Utrisha N, based on Symborg's BlueN technology, will play a key role, providing value for the efficiency of integrated nutrition management, maximizing yield potential and productivity, as well as improving sustainability, in line with the 2030 Sustainability Goals. by Corteva Agriscience.

“Symborg was born with the objective of transforming agriculture and helping the farmer to combine profitability and sustainability. With our innovative biotechnological solutions, we want to be that bridge between the agricultural model that begins to demand urgent changes and the model that is yet to come ”, explains Jesús Juárez, founding partner and CEO of Symborg. “It is exciting to establish an alliance with Corteva, a company with which we share values ​​such as innovation, sustainability and closeness to the farmer. A great opportunity to accelerate the transfer of BlueN technology and a great opportunity for agriculture, society and the planet ”.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Corteva, Inc. is a publicly traded global agricultural company offering farmers around the world the most comprehensive portfolio in the industry, including a balanced and diverse mix of seeds, crop protection, and digital solutions focused on optimizing crops. productivity to improve performance and profitability. Boasting some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and an industry-leading product and technology portfolio well-positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to working with stakeholders across the food system while it fulfills its promise to improve the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Corteva Agriscience became an independent publicly owned company on June 1, 2019; It was formerly part of the agricultural division of DowDuPont.

Symborg is a leading biotechnology company in the agricultural sector that helps farmers to maximize crop yields with a minimum of resources, contributing to a more sustainable agriculture. Symborg develops, manufactures and markets innovative biostimulants and biofertilizers for all types of crops and agricultural systems, increasing the efficiency in the use of nutrients, improving the strengthening of crops, their physiological activity and stress tolerance, optimizing and increasing thus its harvest potential and the quality of the fruits. Thanks to its important commitment to R + D + i, Symborg has established itself as a leading company in the agri-food sector that offers biological solutions. It currently has offices in Spain and Portugal, France, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Turkey and China.