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Solynta

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Company Description

Solynta is the hybrid potato breeding company based in the Netherlands. Solynta is using hybrid potato technology to grow a more sustainable future. Solynta’s mission is to help create global solutions for food and nutritional insecurity by giving farmers better, stronger, and more cost-efficient ways to grow crops.

Solynta’s true potato seeds combine years of agricultural experience with the newest hybrid breeding technologies. Solynta’s non-GMO hybrid potato breeding technology will provide resistance to disease and pests, provide ease of use, and facilitate production speed and scalability.

Solynta’s True Potato Seeds technology:
 

  • Replaces 2500 kilo of perishable potato-seed-tubers with 25 grams of pristine true-potato seeds to start a crop
  • By natural breeding, these seeds can be improved much faster with beneficial natural traits like disease resistances - limiting the need for pesticide use- and made more robust against climate change impact.

(Click picture to watch video) The benefits of Solynta hybrid potato seed.

The benefits of Solynta hybrid potato seed.

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Solynta's Potato Hybrids Double Kenyan Farmers' Yields Without Fungicides
October 08, 2024

Potato Revolution in Kenya: Record Yields Without Fungicides

Solynta's potato varieties with high resistances against Late Blight provide Kenyan farmers with good yields, as demonstrated in a comparative field test during an extensive spray/no spray trial in Limuru, Kenya.
Solynta harvest in Kenya
July 25, 2024

Solynta’s hybrid true potato seed varieties approved for commercial release in Kenya

The variety release committee of the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) has recently announced that three of Solynta’s hybrid true potato varieties have been approved for distribution in Kenya.
Peter Poortinga, CEO of Solynta and Frank Terhorst, EVP Strategy & Sustainability at Bayer AG
June 24, 2024

Bayer and Solynta collaborate to advance true potato seed in smallholder markets

Bayer and Solynta have reached an agreement to collaborate on the commercialization and distribution of true potato seeds in Kenya and India.
Solynta rebrands to 'true potato seed' company
March 19, 2024

Solynta rebrands to 'true potato seed' company

Solynta, the Dutch company that specializes in the development, production and sales of hybrid true potato seed has announced that it will adjust its branding to 'Solynta – true potato seed'.

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