Syngenta Group Reports Q3 and Nine-Month 2025 Results
Syngenta Group today announced its financial results for the third quarter and first nine months of 2025, highlighting strong profitability and operational efficiency despite a challenging agricultural market environment.
Group Financial Overview
For the third quarter of 2025, Syngenta Group reported sales of $6.4 billion, representing a 6% decline year-on-year and 7% lower at constant exchange rates (CER). Despite lower sales, EBITDA rose 28% (35% at CER), reflecting improved cost discipline and a stronger business mix.
In the first nine months of 2025, Group sales totaled $20.9 billion, a 2% decline from the prior year (-1% at CER). EBITDA increased 25% (31% at CER) to $3.4 billion, driven by margin expansion and efficiency gains. The EBITDA margin rose to 16.5%, up from 12.9% a year earlier — an improvement of 3.6 percentage points.
The sales decline primarily reflects a managed reduction in the Group’s grain trading business in China, consistent with Syngenta’s strategy to focus on higher-value, innovation-driven segments.
Syngenta Group credited its strong performance to sustained investments in R&D and innovation, alongside disciplined cost management, enhanced productivity, and improved operational efficiency. The company reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable, long-term profitability and continued margin improvement through innovation and portfolio optimization.
Looking ahead to the rest of 2025, the Group expects stable sales and continued profitability growth, even as farmer profitability remains under pressure across key agricultural regions.
Syngenta Crop Protection
Sales for Syngenta Crop Protection reached $9.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025, up 3% year-on-year (+5% at CER). Market conditions continued to stabilize, with volume growth partially offset by pricing pressures.
Regional performance showed broad-based strength:
- Europe and Asia, Middle East & Africa (excluding China) each grew 6%.
- China delivered 7% growth year-on-year.
- North America increased 3%, supported by strong customer engagement and new high-performing herbicides and fungicides.
- Brazil achieved a 2% sales increase, aided by the success of PLINAZOLIN® technology.
- LATAM (excluding Brazil) declined 7%, affected by drought in Mexico and price pressures in Argentina.
The biologicals business maintained robust momentum, recording double-digit sales growth and strong volume increases.
Syngenta Crop Protection continued its pace of innovation and product approvals, securing over 1,200 registrations in 2025. Notable launches included SEGURIS® Evo in rice (India) and VESTORIA® Pro insecticide against Brown Plant Hopper, launched a year ahead of schedule. The ADEPIDYN® technology expanded into its 61st market, the Philippines, while Brazil registered three new products based on TYMIRIUM® technology, strengthening solutions for nematode and fungal control.
Syngenta Seeds
The Seeds business recorded $3.3 billion in sales, up 1% year-on-year (2% at CER).
Regional highlights included:
- Brazil up 13%; LATAM up 20%, led by a strong recovery in Argentina’s corn market.
- China up 3%.
- Asia, Middle East & Africa down 2%.
- North America down 5%, and Europe down 6%.
Vegetable Seeds sales grew 3%, while Flowers were down 1%.
The division advanced its AI-driven R&D initiatives, introducing next-generation AI models to accelerate breeding decisions and improve success rates. The first X-TERRA® hybrid wheat varieties are expected to launch in France (2026), followed by the UK (2027) and Germany (2029).
Hybrid rice saw important milestones with the first commercial launch in Indonesia and a third hybrid launch in Vietnam. In Argentina, corn sales rebounded strongly, while sunflower seed volumes rose due to acreage expansion. Brazil introduced four new products during the latest Safrinha cycle. In North America, Syngenta and M.S. Technologies launched a new soybean trait stack, offering unprecedented tolerance to multiple active ingredients.
In China, Fortune named China Seeds among the Top 50 Tech Companies, the only agricultural firm on the list.
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds also deepened its collaboration with Heritable Agriculture to integrate AI-powered prediction models, improving product suitability for specific regions. The business showcased innovation at its annual event in the Netherlands, displaying 400 vegetable varieties to over 2,000 growers from 62 countries, and hosted a “Future of Veg” event series across the US.
Syngenta Group China
Syngenta Group China posted $6.5 billion in sales, down 11% year-on-year (-11% CER), reflecting the planned reduction of the grain trading business and persistent price pressures.
However, several core segments performed strongly:
- Seeds and Branded Formulation grew 4%.
- Crop Nutrition rose 6%.
- Yangnong Chemical increased 14%.
- The Grain trading business fell 63%, aligning with the strategic shift toward higher-value activities.
The China Seeds business received 111 new national trait certificates and was recognized as the country’s top commercial seed seller, with three varieties ranked among the national top 10.
Syngenta Group China also made progress in digital and sustainable agriculture, expanding its Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) and launching iMAP, an AI-driven precision farming solution. The “Bio+” biologicals portfolio achieved strong year-on-year growth, and the Nantong manufacturing facility completed all production targets ahead of schedule.
ADAMA
ADAMA generated $3.0 billion in sales in the first nine months of 2025, roughly flat year-on-year in a stabilizing post-patent market. Profitability improved under its “Fight Forward” transformation plan, marking six consecutive quarters of EBITDA growth.
Regional performance included:
- North America up 15%, driven by robust commercial momentum.
- Europe, Africa & Middle East down 1%.
- Latin America down 2%.
- Asia Pacific (excluding China) down 18%, consistent with a focus on reducing commodity exposure.
- China up 4%.
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