Agricultural Solutions

Fungicides
Conducting pioneering research to find new active ingredients and provide our customers with new options to control fungal diseases:

• Adapzo^® Active is a new class of chemistry with a novel mode of action. Its product family delivers exceptional control of key soybean diseases, including Asian Soybean Rust.
• Pavecto^®1 Active provides farmers with an effective solution to control a broad range of leaf spot diseases in soy, wheat, and fruits and vegetables and to overcome widespread resistance.
• Revysol^® Active offers outstanding biological performance against difficult-to-control pathogens in fruits, vegetables and row crops. The active ingredient has received registrations in all regions, and Revysol^®- based products have been introduced globally in all major crops.
• Xemium^® is a key component of BASF’s fungicides portfolio due to its broad-spectrum disease control and is available in more than 80 countries for roughly 150 different crops.
   

Herbicides
Reducing competition from weeds secures yield and harvest quality, enabling no-till farming practices:

• Luximo^® Active provides soil residual control against a broad range of grasses in cereal crops. Luximo^® has no known crossresistance.
• Tirexor^® Active is a PPO-inhibitor herbicide (protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase) for controlling weeds currently resistant to other PPO inhibitors. It provides effective burndown of broadleaf weeds and suppression of annual ryegrass. Voraxor^®, which combines Tirexor^® Active and Kixor^® Active, harnesses the strength of two potent PPO active ingredients to offer a powerful, new weed control solution.
• Glufosinate-P-ammonium Active is an advanced active ingredient herbicide powered by the latest glufosinate innovation, Glu-L™ technology. This active ingredient controls broadleaf weeds and grasses while reducing product bulk and increasing efficacy, operational efficiency and sustainability. It can be used in row crops, including soybean, cotton, corn and canola.
   

Insecticides
Combating insect pests in agriculture and beyond:

• Prexio^® Active is a new insecticide active ingredient designed specifically to manage all four rice hopper pest species and has no known cross-resistance to market standards.
• Axalion^® Active introduces a completely new class of chemistry with a novel mode of action that controls many of the most problematic piercing and sucking insect pests, with no crossresistance to existing chemistries. Designed to work in harmony with beneficial insects, Axalion^® becomes an essential tool for growers looking to strengthen their Integrated Pest Management programs.
• Inscalis^®2 Active offers an alternative mode of action for the control of piercing and sucking insects in row crops and specialty crops and ornamentals.
• Broflanilide³ Active is a powerful and versatile multispectrum insecticide and provides high efficacy against caterpillars and beetles in specialty crops and row crops.

Seed treatment
Biological and chemical products, functional coatings and colorants to improve seed performance:

• Poncho^® Votivo^® is a systemic insecticide and biological seed treatment to control insect pests and protect against soil plant pathogenic nematodes.
• Teraxxa^® is the only seed treatment for cereals that eliminates wireworms by interfering with nerve signal communication.
• ILEVO^® seed treatment for soybeans provides broad-spectrum nematode protection against soybean sudden death syndrome and cyst nematode, two of the top yield robbers.
• Vault^® IP Plus seed treatment, a fully dimensional soybean inoculant, augments nitrogen fixation with a unique EPA-registered dual-strain biofungicide and the lowest application rate in its class.
• Sepiret^® delivers performance and industry-leading sustainability with microplastic-free seed coatings.

Field crop seeds & traits
Bringing high-yield-potential germplasm, advanced trait technologies and continuous innovation addressing the current and future needs of farmers:

• A strong seed brand portfolio that delivers high-quality seed germplasms via high-performing hybrids and varieties that adapt to the growing conditions of local farmers. The portfolio includes InVigor^® canola (oilseed rape), FiberMax^® cotton, Stoneville^® cotton, Credenz^® soybean, Lidero^® rice and InSun^® sunflower seed.
• From herbicide tolerance to insect resistance and agronomic trait technologies, our traits help crops realize their full potential. The portfolio includes pod shatter reduction technology for canola, LibertyLink^®, GlyTol^®, TwinLink^®, TwinLink^® Plus, Clearfield^® Production System and Provisia^® Rice System. The newest traits are Axant^® Flex and Seletio^® herbicide tolerance technology for cotton.

Vegetable seeds
We develop innovative vegetable seeds and solutions for tomorrow’s needs. With over 100 years of breeding expertise, BASF | Nunhems offers 1,200 varieties across 20 crops, helping growers overcome challenges while delivering high-quality vegetables enjoyed by 500 million consumers worldwide.

• Our commitment to disease resistance is exemplified by the early introduction of resistant varieties for the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV), achieved through accelerated development using innovative breeding practices like indoor farming and marker technology. This proactive approach ensures that plants and fruits remain symptomless and marketable, providing reliable revenue for growers.
• BASF | Nunhems develops melon varieties designed to perform reliably across diverse growing conditions while meeting evolving market expectations. Galkia melons feature a unique natural color change from green to yellow at ripeness, enabling harvest at optimal maturity and helping ensure consistent flavor and quality once in stores.

1 Co-developed with Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
2 Co-developed with Meiji Seika Pharma Co. Ltd
3 Co-developed with Mitsui Chemicals Agro, Inc.

The Agricultural Solutions division holds one of the top four market positions in almost all of the strategic business areas in which it is active.

The main competitors (alphabetical order) include Bayer, Corteva, FMC, Syngenta and UPL.

Our innovation pipeline has an incremental peak sales potential of more than €7.5 billion for products and solutions launched by 2035, with further value expected from innovations launching beyond this 10-year view. Steered by our crop system approach, R&D focuses on delivering the best solutions for farmers’ highest-value problems. This includes integrated solutions of high-performance seeds, innovative traits, and state-of-the-art seed treatments together with novel active ingredients, high tech formulations, emerging biologicals, and digitally enabled agronomic solutions. For example, the pipeline features novel traits developed with the crop protection pipeline, such as new herbicides with corresponding herbicide tolerance traits.
 

Digital farming
With products from xarvio^® Digital Farming Solutions, we enable precision farming and help farmers globally optimize crop yield using fewer natural resources and crop inputs.

• xarvio^® FIELD MANAGER, a crop optimization platform, provides tailored, field-specific agronomic advice to help farmers use inputs at the right time, place and in the right amount to improve yield, profit, efficiency and sustainability.

From 2023 onward

Advanced seed technology against resistant weeds

Axant^® Flex is cotton’s first and only quadruple-stack herbicide tolerance trait package. This unprecedented tolerance to multiple herbicides provides farmers with critical options to control resistant weeds. The seed technology is incorporated into BASF’s high-quality cotton varieties and supported by its industry-leading herbicide pipeline. This integrated solution safeguards yield stability and fiber quality and was recently launched for farmers in major cotton-growing regions, including the United States; in Brazil, it is available as Seletio^®, a triple-stack herbicide trait package. The innovation strengthens BASF’s market position as a leading provider of quality cotton seed varieties with advanced trait technologies.