MainDB: Boosting crop yield for every drop of water

Title: Boosting crop yield for every drop of water
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NWPTypeOfOrganization: Private sector
NWPGeographicRegion: Africa; Asia; Caribbean and Central America; North America; South America
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Adaptation element: Adaptation planning and practices; Capacity building; Education and training; Financial support; Knowledge management; Science and research; Technology support
Adaptation sector/theme: Agriculture; Food security; Water resources; Biodiversity; Disaster risk reduction
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Country: All
NWPDataSource: PSI
Description: Syngenta addresses climate change in agriculture sector by focusing on optimizing natural resource use efficiency – grow more from less. Water being an essential resource for agriculture, therefore finding ways and means to maximize water use efficiency is a top priority for the company.
 
Syngenta water optimizing portfolio includes:
Drought tolerant seeds, such as Agrisure Artesian™ technology - with its range of high-performance, water-optimized corn hybrids; offer growers a new level of season-long drought protection;
Best farm management practices, such as integrated insect control, minimum tillage, crop rotations, cover cropping and others; enable growers to improve farm productivity;
Crop protection products, such as herbicides, insecticides and fungicides; provide early season weed control in order to maximize crop yield potential right from the start by eliminating weed competition for water use and protecting crops from diseases and insects;
Crop enhancement tools, such as seed treatment and certain growth regulating fungicides; improve crop’s responses to abiotic stresses and play a key role in improving water use efficiency by protecting seeds and plant saplings from pests and microorganisms;
Farm extension services, such as incremental crop insurance, yield assurance, farmers education and training; and 
Safe guard growers against agronomic and weather challenges and enhance farm level capacity building to deal with bad weather.
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Further information: Maximize yield when it rains and increase yield when it doesn’t: https://www.syngenta-us.com/prodrender/imagehandler.ashx?ImID=4a142589-1e3c-48af-8cc2-91492d8dc2c5&fty=0&et=8
Find case study summary here: https://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/nairobi_work_programme/private_sector_initiative/application/pdf/syngenta.wbcsd.pdf
NWPGeographicScope: Global; National
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NWPPartner: Syngenta AG
Purpose: This case study demonstrates water optimization in crop production – enabling crops to achieve their production potential with less water. Syngenta is one of the industry leaders in providing water-optimizing solutions to meet various water-related challenges a grower encounters throughout crop production. Working with several value chain partners: scientists, industry and crop experts, NGOs, cooperatives, farm machinery providers, etc.; Syngenta develops and disseminates integrated solutions to optimize water use and maximize resource efficiency without forgoing crop profitability.
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Target group: Communities; Policy makers; Practitioners
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NWPOutcome: The water optimizing solutions help growers to grow more crops per unit of water, while reducing crop stress during dry weather spells and during gaps in rainfall. For instance, field trials from the USA showed that Agrisure Artesian hybrid corn in combination with crop enhancement products, insect and weed management practices maximized yields when it rains, and increased yields up to 15% when it rains less. Further, the hybrid corn had provided greater yield stability in drought conditions or in fields with variable soil type and water holding capacities when compared to “non-hybrid” corn. 

 
To sum up, the water optimizing solutions offer proven season long drought protection and maximizes yield in any of the following environment:
Yield stability with higher percentage of available water converted into grain;
Under normal conditions no yield drag, in-fact maximized yield;
Under stress conditions greater yield than non-solution offers; and
Higher farm profitability.
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Created at 21/04/2016 11:46 by Roberto Felix
Last modified at 17/05/2022 16:35 by Nicholas Hamp-Adams
 
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