AsianScientist (May 31, 2019) – Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont, officially opened its Asia Pacific head office in Singapore this week.
It announced a series of investments that include the establishment of a global analytics center of excellence and a new R&D lab, as well as a collaboration strategy designed to encourage the further development of the Asia-Pacific agriculture technology start-up ecosystem.
Peter Ford, president of Asia Pacific at Corteva Agriscience, said, “With key collaborators like Singapore’s Economic Development Board and the Singapore Food Agency, we share a commitment to using new innovative approaches to make agriculture value chains more productive and sustainable.”
Singapore will also be home to the company’s newest Product Design and Process R&D lab, which joins a network of three other facilities globally—Indianapolis, US; Drusenheim, France; and Franco da Rocha, Brazil. A key focus of the Singapore research group is to ensure the successful commercialization of Corteva Agriscience’s pipeline of products and technologies.
In conjunction with the opening of the Asia Pacific head office, Corteva Agriscience announced a collaboration between its Global Analytics Center of Excellence and Southeast Asian sustainable agriculture platform, Grow Asia, to address the needs of smallholder farmers across SEA through the application of data science and analytics.
The center will explore merging simulated and real-time data to develop predictive capabilities for weather patterns, disease and pest threats impacting agriculture. The center also plans to use blockchain and the Internet of Things technologies to help farmers and food suppliers meet increasing government, regulatory and consumer demands for food traceability and provenance authentication.
Damian Chan, executive director (chemicals & materials), Singapore Economic Development Board, said, “As countries across the region increasingly focus on food security, we look forward to seeing Singapore’s food and agriculture industries thrive, with market-leaders like Corteva Agriscience taking the lead in securing the future of food in Asia.”
Corteva Agriscience represents the combined strengths of DuPont Crop Protection, DuPont Pioneer and Dow AgroSciences, which will spin-off on June 1, 2019 to publicly list on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Source: Corteva Agriscience.
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