Productivity always has and always will be a key driver of profitability in agriculture, and nowhere more than in Australia and New Zealand, where labour costs are high and market access is competitive.

Innovation is about more than big ideas. Innovation is about transformation. The Innovator category of the Growth Awards is new in 2020, and it couldn't have come at a more appropriate time.

A global survey of large scale farmers in the USA, France, China, Brazil, India and across Africa for Syngenta Group found 72 per cent are worried about the impact climate change will have on crop yields, animal health and their ability to do business over the next five years.

Growers today face a tough challenge: to sustainably feed a growing global population. That's why in 2013 Syngenta launched The Good Growth Plan - to make a lasting and positive impact on farmers and rural communities who provide the world's food security and to support the long-term sustainability of our planet.