Percentage loss of crop

Andrew Selley

Food Industry Key Account Manager ‐ DuPont Crop Protection  Europe Middle East & Africa

Andy.Selley@DuPont.com

Potato Tuber Moth meeting Bologna 2013

DuPont Crop Protection

Potato Tuber Moth meeting - Bologna 2013

21.10.2013

Introduction

Overview of DuPont

Introduce DuPont Crop Protection

Why Potatoes ?

Science

Company

A Market-driven

AG &

NUTRITION

• seeds

• crop protection

• speciality food ingredients

INDUSTRIAL BIOTECH

• enzymes

• biofuels

• biomaterials

ADVANCED MATERIALS

• protective materials

• alternative energy

• electronic materials

• advanced polymers

Delivering Growth Delivering Solutions, 2012 DuPont Corporate Data

By Region

$34.8 Billion in Sales for 2012

By Business Segment

12.9

% 40.8

% 23.3

% 23%

North America  EMEA  Asia/Pacific Latin America

Agriculture  Electronics

Industrial Biosciences  Nutrition & Health  Performance Chemicals Performance Materials  Safety & Protection

10.9

% 29.9

% 7.7%

9.7% 3.4%

20.7

% 18.4

%

+ 40% 

company

direct 

Links to

Agriculture

DuPont Crop Protection

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Our Pipeline Realizing Innovation:

VERTISAN™

Excellent disease protection for wheat, apples, specialty crops

Innovation

ACANTO®/APROACH®

Superior disease control in cereals & specialties

2008 Commercial Pipeline

CYAZYPYR™

Prevents damage &

disease from chewing

& sucking pests

QGU42

Our newest innovation in Fungicides

INSECTICIDE

Chewing insect control for specialty crops

FUNGICIDE

Broad-spectrum control for cereals, specialty crops

2020’s

RYNAXYPYR®

World’s leading product for control of chewing insect pests

PASTURE & RANGE

Unparalleled control of weeds for robust grass growth

RICE INSECTICIDE

Control of resistant sucking pests in rice

NEMATICIDE

Nematode control for specialty and row crops

INSECTICIDE HERBICIDE HERBICIDE NEMATICIDE

Perspective®, Streamline®, Viewpoint®

Long-lasting invasive weed control for Land Management**

* DuPont™ Acanto™ are not registered for sale or use in the United States. No sale, offer for sale or use of these products are permitted prior to the issuance of the required EPA and state registrations.

** Perspective®, Streamline® and ViewPoint® are not registered for sale or use on range and pasture in the United States. No sale, offer for sale or use of these product in range and pasture is permitted.

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Innovation

Recognition Realizing Innovation:

Agrow Award for Best R&D Pipeline

• 14 in total – nearly twice that of any other company

• 2 for most innovative chemistry

R&D Magazine 100 Award for Innovation

ACS Team Innovation Award in 2010 for Rynaxypyr ^®

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Why potatoes?

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Maize Rice Potatoes Wheat

P e rc e n ta ge l o s s of c rop

Professor John Beddington Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Government and Head of the UK Government Office  for Science Campaign for Science and Engineering, London 10/12/09

Potatoes: greater losses from pest &

diseases than other major crops!

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Increasingly Essential GLOBAL Crop

Needs & responds to sustainable crop protection DuPont aims to play an INCREASING role :

Vydate # 1 Nematode & Insect protection

Curzate® Famoxate®, + further exciting new chemistry in the pipe line for leading disease control

Low dose Herbicide Titus® ,

Now 1 ^st launch of Coragen ® insecticide in EMEA on potatoes

• Outstanding environmental features.

• Excellent protections against Colorado Beetle

• Market leading field control of Potato Tuber moth with significant

storage benefits