Syngenta Group is a global agricultural technology company formed in 2000 from the merger of four companies: Syngenta Seeds, Syngenta Crop Protection, Adama and Syngenta Group China. Based in Basel, Switzerland, the group is wholly owned by ChemChina, a unit of China's state-owned chemicals company Sinochem. The group operates in over 90 countries around the world, providing farmers with seeds, crop-protection solutions and digital agriculture tools to improve productivity and sustainability.