Agriculture

Vegetable Seeds - We Create Innovative Seed Varieties and Smart Solutions for Tomorrow’s Needs

With over 100 years of breeding experience and a presence in more than 100 countries, BASF | Nunhems offers 1,200 commercial vegetable seed varieties across 20 crops. Our seeds help growers meet the challenges of climate change, labor shortages, disease pressure and changing consumer demands. Every day, over 500 million consumers worldwide enjoy vegetables grown from our seeds. Backed by cutting-edge R&D, global expertise, and strong partnerships across the value chain, we’re committed to creating vegetables people love.

Benefits:

Best meeting customer’s demands due to close partnership with farmers and scientists
Consistent and comprehensive approach along the vegetable value chain from grower to consumer
Innovative traits that contribute to high yields for farmers and healthy, tasty and convenient foods for consumers
Unique products that help improve customers’ business growth and profitability
Hybrid varieties with traits and characteristics that are suited to different climates, growing conditions, and to cultural and consumer preferences, guarantee success for customers around the globe

Icon - The text reads: 2,000 employees in 42 countries. 1,200 varieties in 20 vegetable crops.

Vision

At BASF | Nunhems, we develop high-performing vegetable seed varieties and solutions that help growers and the entire value chain respond to a rapidly changing world. We combine genetics, data, and global partnerships to deliver vegetables people love — today and for generations to come.

Product offering

Under the brand Nunhems, high-quality vegetable seeds and expert advice in 20 crops are offered to the professional vegetable production industry and supply chain. With more than 2,000 specialists, it is present in all major vegetable production areas around the globe and dedicated to developing market and consumer-oriented varieties and concepts. With a direct orientation towards customers along the whole value chain and towards sharing value-added genetics, services and expertise to help them succeed.

Icon - The text reads: 80-100 new introductions each year. 20% - 25% of yearly revenue spent on R&D each year.

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Product supply

Operations is responsible for the entire process from production to packaging. BASF produces its vegetable seeds globally and has regional processing centers for global sales.

Icon - The text reads: Active in + 100 countries. 3 main centers for seed processing & quality assurance.

Product concept

With over 1,200 seed varieties in 20 vegetable crops, Nunhems is a world-renowned brand in the hybrid seed industry. The breeding programs deliver innovative products which in turn help improve our customers’ business growth and profitability.

BASF understands that every market is unique. We develop hybrid varieties with traits and characteristics that are suited to different climates, growing conditions, and to cultural and consumer preferences.

Next to the seed varieties and services that BASF offers to growers, we also engage in collaborations with growers, traders, food service providers, fresh-cut companies and retailers.

If you have questions or want more info please contact us or send us an e-mail.

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News Releases

Results: 10

The expanded processing facilities will enhance BASF’s capacity to deliver high quality vegetable seeds to growers worldwide.
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Trade News |

April 16, 2026

BASF Agricultural Solutions invests 40 million euro in next generation seed processing facilities in Nunhem, Netherlands

BASF’s vegetable seeds business, part of BASF Agricultural Solutions, announced a 40 million euro investment in the modernization and expansion of its seed processing facilities at its headquarters in Nunhem, Netherlands.

Signing Ceremony -BASF | Nunhems to acquire Noble Seeds Pvt. Ldt. From left to right, Noble Seeds: Surinder Kaur, Sudha Mani, Ravi Rana (standing), Lakshmi M. N., G. K. Hegde (standing), From BASF | Nunhems: Rajendra Velagala, Rene Hogenboom, and G. Chaluvaraju.
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Trade News |

December 18, 2025

BASF | Nunhems to acquire Noble Seeds Pvt. Ltd., strengthening its leading position in India’s vegetable seed market

BASF | Nunhems, housed under Nunhems India Pvt. Ltd., has today formally agreed to acquire Noble Seeds Pvt. Ltd., a recognized player in India’s vegetable seed sector. This acquisition will enable BASF’s vegetable seed business to become a market leader in India.
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Business & Financial News |

March 15, 2023

BASF advances innovation pipeline with integrated solutions to accelerate agriculture's transformation

BASF presents the latest advancements in its agricultural innovation pipeline of crop protection, seeds and traits, and digital solutions. Their focus is to provide much-needed solutions for farmers to overcome local and crop system specific pest pressures, climate challenges, changing regulatory requirements and rising consumer expectations.

March 13, 2023

BASF Venture Capital GmbH invests in WayBeyond

San Francisco, California, and Mannheim, Germany – March 13, 2023 – BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture capital company of BASF SE, is investing in WayBeyond. Founded in New Zealand and now headquartered in the United States, WayBeyond is an Internet of things (IoT) and software as a service (SaaS) company that aims to improve crop yields, crop quality and grower profitability for low-to-mid tech controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) operations using data capture, farm management, and prediction tools.

Business & Financial News | Trade News |

April 20, 2022

Strong pipeline of BASF agricultural innovations will benefit food security, climate and environment

BASF announces its ten-year outlook on agricultural innovations that support food security for future generations, while minimizing the impact of farming on the climate and the environment. The company focuses on improving agricultural outcomes in major crops, like wheat, canola, soybean, corn, cotton, rice, as well as fruits and vegetables. According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), these crops account for more than 50% of the world’s farmland, which is why innovations applied on such a large scale have the potential to make farming even more productive and sustainable.