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Bayer Crop Science, Monheim (Germany)

Monheim am Rhein, Germany51.09°N 6.89°E

computed criticality19/100

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≈56% of the global seed market across 4 groups; Bayer alone ≈23%

2025

Fault line

After the Bayer-Monsanto, Dow-DuPont (Corteva) and ChemChina-Syngenta mergers, four groups control about 56% of commercial seeds and 61% of the world's pesticides. Bayer and Corteva together hold ≈42% of the market, locked in by patents on genetic traits. Cultivated genetic diversity and price-setting depend on a German-American-Chinese oligopoly.

Actors

Bayer Crop Science (Monheim)

Corteva (Indianapolis)

Syngenta Group / ChemChina (Basel)

BASF (Ludwigshafen)

Feeds 2

Black Sea grain, Odesa (Ukraine)Fertilizers & Food↗Rice, India (export policies)Fertilizers & Food↗

Sources

ETC Group / GRAIN, 2025 ↗estimate

Public Eye, 2023 ↗estimate

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