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Through this acquisition, BASF can compete with bigger players in the agricultural market for the long term. With our expanded portfolio across seeds and traits, chemical and biological crop protection, soil management, plant health, pest control and digital tools, we can offer farmers even more solutions to help increase their yields, crop quality and profitability, while ensuring a responsible balance between increased productivity and the efficient use of scarce resources.. Our combined, complementary R&D portfolio brings even better innovation capabilities and scale, which enables us to seize future market opportunities and increase competition. This generates choice, superior solutions and long-term value for our customers.

All this is backed by an expanded team of highly experienced, motivated professionals passionate about the future of agriculture.

Our customers are number one and ensuring a seamless transition while maintaining business continuity is a top priority for us. It is our pledge to be a strong partner from Day 1.

The acquisition is the perfect opportunity to create a broad, balanced offering that gives our customers real choice in a consolidating and changing industry. BASF will become an even better partner for farmers by strengthening our crop protection portfolio, providing differentiated seed and trait products, adding more digital tools, and growing our experienced team to help farms thrive today and in the future. The acquisition makes us the world's fourth largest player with seeds and crop protection with a much better geographical coverage.

The scope includes Bayer’s global glufosinate-ammonium business; canola/oilseed rape, cotton, soybean and vegetable seed businesses; R&D platform for hybrid wheat; certain seed treatment products; certain glyphosate-based herbicides in Europe, used predominantly for industrial applications; the complete digital farming platform xarvio^TM; canola-quality juncea research and certain non-selective herbicide and nematicide research projects.

The transaction strengthens our portfolio, is fully in line with BASF's strategy and contributes to how we address the growing demand for food globally.

The strategy targets seven customer industries - transport, construction, consumer goods, health and nutrition, electronics, energy & resources and agriculture - where BASF can contribute to solving global challenges such as a growing world population and thus continue to grow profitably. 

The all-cash purchase price for the combined acquisition is €7.6 billion, subject to certain adjustments at closing.

BASF is taking over many sites globally, including 5 chemical production and formulation sites, 17 R&D sites and more than 200 regional seed production and breeding facilities.

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