Overview Business highlights 2011 Syngenta’s scientific  expertise honored  Launch of new strategy Capital Markets Days:  unrivaled technology breadth Innovation across  the business New US genetics  research facility Expanding through  partnerships Triple corn stack approval  in Argentina  Thought for Food  In February, Syngenta announced a new  strategy to develop fully integrated offers on  a global crop basis, building on the combined  strength of the company’s crop protection and  seeds businesses. Our goal is to create value  for shareholders by first creating value for  customers, and to continue our contribution  towards improving global food security. In June and August, Syngenta held Capital  Markets Days in the UK and the USA to enable  stakeholders to experience the significant value- creation potential of the new integrated strategy.  The days highlighted the breadth of Syngenta’s  technologies across all the world’s major crops. Syngenta announced in May it will construct  a new state-of-the-art biotechnology research  facility adjacent to its existing research campus  in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. The US$71 million investment includes climate-controlled greenhouses and precision  growth chambers to facilitate the discovery  of abiotic traits. To complement our integrated crop  management programs, Syngenta announced  partnerships with Marrone Bio Innovations for  the marketing of a bio-fungicide and with  Pasteuria Bioscience Inc. for the development  of bio-nematicidal products. In Brazil, we signed  a cotton seed distribution agreement with  Fundação MT, strengthening our range  of solutions for Brazilian cotton growers. Syngenta won an Agrow award in November  for VIBRANCE ™ , a broad-spectrum fungicide  seed treatment on cereals, voted the best new  crop protection product. The award recognizes  Syngenta scientists’ innovative work to support  modern agriculture in a world of increasing  grower challenges.  Syngenta continued to expand its portfolio  with three new traits in corn: AGRISURE ® ARTESIAN ™ , AGRISURE ®  VIPTERA ™  and  ENOGEN ® . Also launched were the new crop  protection products VIBRANCE ™ , a seed care  fungicide, and SEGURIS ® , for  Septoria  control  in wheat. In November, Argentina approved Syngenta’s  triple corn stack Bt11 x MIR162 x GA21 for  cultivation. Combining herbicide tolerance and  insect resistance, and offering outstanding  control of above ground pests, the triple stack  will be available to Argentine growers for the  2012/2013 season. Syngenta launched Thought for Food, a bold  new initiative challenging students from leading  European universities to help tackle the world’s  escalating food issues. The three winning teams  took to the stage at One Young World  in September to kick off a global dialogue  on food security for the future.  Syngenta Annual Review 2011 03