Syngenta teams up with Al Dahra in new strategic collaboration

Syngenta, a global pioneer in agricultural innovation, and Al Dahra, a multinational agribusiness managing 400,000 acres of sustainably irrigated farmland and operating across six continents, have formed a strategic alliance to deploy Syngenta’s digital farm management technologies across over 220,000 acres of Al Dahra’s farms in Romania, Serbia, Egypt, and Morocco. The partnership is designed to drive large-scale sustainable farming and boost productivity in these critical agricultural regions

By adopting Syngenta’s Cropwise Operations platform, Al Dahra will centralize farm data across its multinational operations and diverse production sites, enabling more informed and efficient decision-making at both the field and enterprise levels. This strategic move supports Al Dahra’s goals of enhancing the sustainability of its agricultural practices, boosting long-term productivity, and securing a stable feed supply.

Cropwise Operations is an integrated digital platform that combines agronomic, financial, and administrative management tools. It will be seamlessly integrated with Al Dahra’s existing digital infrastructure, providing real-time insights that empower farm managers to swiftly respond to threats like pests or diseases, optimize irrigation and water use, and more precisely manage seed, fertilizer, and other input applications.

The platform has been fully embedded into Al Dahra’s complex IT ecosystem, enabling consistent corporate standards and operations across the entire agro-holding. With unified templates, classifiers, and metrics now in place, all business units benefit from streamlined and standardized management reporting.

Feroz Sheikh, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Syngenta Group, stated:

“Cropwise Operations represents a major advancement in digital agriculture. Our collaboration with Al Dahra highlights how powerful data-driven insights can revolutionize large-scale farming across different geographies. This partnership sets a new benchmark in sustainable, precision agriculture.”

Currently, Cropwise connects 70 million hectares of farmland globally, underscoring its reach and effectiveness.

Arnoud van den Berg, Group CEO of Al Dahra, added: “Innovation is central to our strategy at Al Dahra. We envision a fully digital, intelligent infrastructure that minimizes manual data entry and empowers our workforce to focus on high-value tasks. Automating reporting and gaining real-time visibility across our farms were critical priorities—Cropwise Operations emerged as the ideal solution to help us achieve those objectives and elevate our farm management capabilities.”