The Netherlands based KeyGene, the crop innovation company and Mahindra Agri Solutions, a subsidiary of Mahindra today announced a multi-year strategic research collaboration for key field crops. 

KeyGene’s crop innovation platforms will be used for the development of economically important and market relevant traits. This technology collaboration will yield highly productive and more resilient varieties of crops helping to deliver on Mahindra’s FarmTech Prosperity brand promise. Most significantly, the collaboration will ensure crop resistance to abiotic stresses such as drought & heat, and biotic stresses like pests and diseases, in MASL’s proprietary germplasm. 

Commenting on this new partnership, Ashok Sharma, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Agri Solutions Limited, said “this is the new age of farming that encompasses a range of advanced techniques to elevate the entire agri-ecosystem, through the provision of customized products and solutions.” KeyGene is a global leader in crop innovation and we will leverage their expertise, next generation technologies and trait platforms to develop highly productive and more resilient crops for both the Indian market and new geographies.