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## Operations 

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## Syngenta demonstration farms 

1. Corn field with protection zone (center) and biodiversity strip, Geispitzen, France. 

2. Training on how to calibrate a boom sprayer for best-practice application, Geispitzen, France. 

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## Suppliers 

During the year we conducted 97 HSE assessments at our chemical suppliers: six in EAME, five in North America, 25 in LATAM and 61 in APAC. We recorded a further improvement in suppliers’ average observed HSE standard for the ninth consecutive year, and extended the scope of our HSE support for our most important suppliers to include process risk assessment. 

## Stewardship 

The success of our business is reliant upon not only providing technology to farmers, but also helping them to use natural resources more efficiently by applying technology safely and responsibly. That is why we give absolute priority to stewardship: the responsible and ethical management of our solutions from discovery and development to their use and ultimate disposal. 

This begins with making safety a core consideration in the development process. It involves cooperating fully with governments, regulators and NGOs to support transparent and effective regulation. And it means educating farmers – often in partnership with NGOs – to use our products correctly. 

We teach the safe and efficient use and disposal of our products to people worldwide: 2.9 million in 2011 alone, through 61 programs. 

Many of these programs extend far beyond product safety. In Latin America, for example, we have partnered with governments, NGOs and labor associations to develop Pequeño Agricultor de Syngenta (PAS) – a complete course in sustainable intensification for small farmers. So far, 360,000 have received this training. 

With local partners in Colombia, we are reaching 1,400 families a year with a Conservation Tillage Program that helps them protect water and soil resources. Adoption of this intensive program has now reached 30 percent and is rising fast. We are now developing similar programs for hill farmers in Vietnam and the Philippines. Trials there show that no-till techniques can halve soil erosion on farms that typically lose an annual average of over 25 tons of soil per hectare. 

In Europe, we have taken a leadership role in sustainable intensification by linking farms into a best-practice demonstration and training network. The farms are used as centers of expertise to give local farmers the latest information on a full range of responsible farming practices such as the safe use of pesticides, environmental stewardship and high-quality, high-yielding production methods. Other visitors, such as researchers, schoolchildren, and policy makers, also learn first-hand how farming creates value for the farmer, society and the environment. 

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