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Agriculture sustainability review

Sustainability is fully embedded in our business strategy, focusing on our customers' sustainability expectations and needs and steering innovation. For Life Sciences, sustainability is about impact, performance, and value.

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Sustainability in Agriculture

  • Sustainability trends continue to be driven by farm-level impacts, with Regenerative Agriculture becoming increasingly recognised as the future direction of travel for the sector.
  • Emerging regulation continues to reduce chemical inputs, driving focus on efficiency and the use of biopesticides whilst improving yields.
  • Microplastic-free seed coatings are gaining traction as regulations tighten, but the shift also highlights the end-of-life impacts of older agricultural inputs. As legacy microplastics linger in soils, the industry is being pushed to consider the full life cycle of seed treatments and other agricultural inputs.

Our Agriculture business has responded by releasing a white paper on Regenerative Agriculture, highlighting the role of science-led innovation by companies like Croda, including biostimulants and microbial solutions, in improving soil health, biodiversity, and carbon capture.

Our seed treatment business, Incotec, leads the market on microplastic-free seed treatment for crops and vegetables.

We continued engaging with customers to explore opportunities to decarbonise ingredients and formulations, including identifying where reformulation can reduce active use, lowering costs and improving sustainability while maintaining performance.

White paper: Regenerative Agriculture

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Whitepaper - A microplastic-free future for seed treatments

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Sustainability in Agriculture

Croda works with independent partners to validate the importance and relevance of the SDGs for both its whole business and its Agriculture footprint. Discover how we are collectively using smart science to maximise land productivity, by increasing yield and increasing resilience, whilst protecting soil health and biodiversity.
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Adjuvant technology in agriculture

Boosting sustainable crop protection

Recent data on our high-performance Tween™ and Atplus™ adjuvant technologies suggests they can enhance the efficacy of certain plant protection products, potentially cutting pesticide use by over 50% while maintaining full-rate performance under optimal conditions. This provides multiple sustainability benefits: reduced carbon emissions, lower costs for farmers, and minimised impacts on human health and biodiversity. We incorporate these findings into our product carbon footprint packages, helping customers make informed, environmentally responsible choices.
Published on:
Tuesday 24th March 2026
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