Striving to deliver innovative solutions to growers

Together with farmers, BASF is helping to safeguard food supplies for a growing world population.

With crop protection active ingredients specifically designed to cause maximum damage to pests and minimum harm to beneficial organisms and ecosystems. With effective solutions against all globally important diseases in crops, from cereals to fruit, vegetables, sunflowers and oilseed rape, through to cotton and soya – leading to higher crop yields and better quality food. Take a peek into our labs and learn more about our research activities and active ingredients.

Innovations in detail

Fungicides

BASF has traditionally led the way in the search for new active ingredients to combat fungal diseases in cultivated plants. Over the years, our products have consistently set new standards.

Insecticides

Insecticides are essential tools for controlling insect pests and therefore, improving the quality of life for humans, domestic animals and livestock. BASF offers a broad portfolio of innovative solutions to customers around the world in the agricultural, turf, ornamental, professional pest and and public health segments.

Herbicides

Weeds reduce the yield and quality of valuable commercial crops, ornamentals, forestry, and turf grass. Weeds also damage crops and other landscapes in a secondary way, serving as hosts for a variety of insects and fungi. In industrial settings, weeds interfere with the safety and management of utilities, highways, railways, runways and waterways.

Biologicals

Biological control agents such as biological fungicides and biological insecticides help reduce the damage caused by diseases and pests including fungi, insects and slugs.

Functional Crop Care

Growers’ most pressing challenges today center on improving yield while managing resources: doing more with less. In addition to protecting crops against pests and disease, growers must optimize yields and plant health by managing through environmental stresses while meeting evolving societal expectations of agriculture.

BASF's Verbund in Agriculture

Discover what is the Verbund and how it works in crop protection

Research Areas

Learn more about BASF research on product innovation and formulation for crop protection.

R&D Strategy

Developing new products is time-consuming and expensive. That’s because every new product has to both safely and effectively control weeds, insects or diseases.

Space Farming

We are supporting three high school students to find out if plant cuttings will grow in space. Their experiment on the ISS will bring insights and inspiration for new ways and places to grow food.

Open Innovation

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