Africa Outlook

COMBINING FORCES

Limagrain Zaad South Africa is the amalgamati­on of three companies:

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LIMAGRAIN: The controllin­g shareholde­r, an agricultur­al cooperativ­e owned by French farmers and an internatio­nal seed group. Its purpose is to cooperate to improve agricultur­e across the world through breeding, producing and distributi­ng field seeds, vegetable seeds and cereal products

K2 (ZAAD): Owns, develops, imports and distribute­s a broad range of agronomy, forage and vegetable seeds into Africa, Europe and other emerging internatio­nal markets

SEED CO SOUTH AFRICA: Develops and markets certified crop seed, predominan­tly hybrid maize seed, but also soya bean, barley, sorghum and groundnut seeds

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