Gautier Semences is a French, company specialized in vegetables seeds founded in 1952 with a 100% family shareholding. Gautier creates, produces and markets vegetable seeds for professional farmers. Through a rigorous approach, Gautier provide innovative solutions to sustainable agriculture’s challenges and support farmers with healthy, safe and efficient seeds every day.
Rijk Zwaan is a vegetable breeding company that develops new vegetable varieties and sells the seeds produced from them all over the world. They tap into the rich diversity nature offers us, and combine it with our extensive market knowledge and state-of-the-art techniques.
Bejo is a leading company in breeding, production and sales of vegetable seeds. With operations in more than thirty countries, Bejo is an internationally oriented family business. 2,200 employees are dedicated to developing the best vegetable varieties for the present and the future. Bejo has expanded over the years in an organic, ongoing process, shaped by interaction between growers, dealers, supply chain partners and own employees.
SEED IN TECH is a new player in seed enhancement. We highlight the adaptative potential of seeds to develop innovative and sustainable seed technologies.
SEMAE (formerly GNIS) is an interprofessionnal organisation that facilitates discussions, exchanges, and decision-making. It includes the sector’s stakeholders as well as seed consumers. It also promotes the French seed sector inside France and abroad. Since 1962, the French government has also made the French Interprofessional Organisation for Seeds and Plants responsible for seed quality and official control.
An agricultural cooperative and an international seed group owned by French farmers, Limagrain breeds, produces and distributes field seeds, vegetable seeds and agri-food products.Focused on the genetic progress of plants, Limagrain is the fourth largest seed group worldwide.
The International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) is an independent, non-profit organization founded during the 4th International Seed Testing Congress in 1924. Its members work to promote uniform methods of evaluating seeds being sold internationally to facilitate the international trading of seeds and to contribute to global food security.
Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary, research-intensive, world-class university. Located in the heart of Paris, with a regional presence, it is committed to the success of its students and to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. Thanks to its 55,300 students, 6,400 academic researchers and partner researchers, and 3,600 administrative and technical staff who make it a daily reality, Sorbonne University promotes diversity, creativity, innovation and openness to the world.
INRAE is France's new National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, created on January 1, 2020, It was formed by the merger of INRA, the National Institute for Agricultural Research, and IRSTEA, the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for the Environment and Agriculture.