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BASF is one of the world’s leading chemical companies. It's headquartered in Germany near the Rhine River, which helps with logistics-related savings. Founded in 1865, it produces a vast array of chemicals, plastics, resins, and agricultural solutions. While the company serves multiple industries, it most prominently serves the automotive, agricultural, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. BASF is a first mover in the energy transition and aims to rapidly expand its recycled and bio-based product portfolio.

Archer-Daniels-Midland is a major processor of oilseeds, corn, wheat, and other agricultural commodities. The company is also one of the largest grain merchandisers through its extensive network of logistical assets to store and transport crops around the globe. ADM also runs a nutrition business that focuses on both human and animal ingredients and is a large producer of corn-based sweeteners, starches, and ethanol.

Muyuan Foods Group Co Ltd is engaged in pig farming and pig sales. Its business activities include livestock breeding, the production and trading of breeding livestock and poultry, the trading of live livestock and poultry for Hong Kong and Macao, feed production, livestock slaughtering, food production and sales, and animal treatment services.

Created in 2018 as a result of the merger between PotashCorp and Agrium, Nutrien is the world’s largest fertilizer producer by capacity. Nutrien produces the three main crop nutrients—nitrogen, potash, and phosphate—although its main focus is potash, where it is the global leader in installed capacity with a roughly 20% market share. The company is also the largest agricultural retailer in North America and Australia, selling fertilizers, crop chemicals, seeds, and services directly to farm customers through its brick-and-mortar stores and online platforms.

Novonesis was formed in 2024 through the merger of Novozymes and Chr. Hansen. Following the merger, the company became the world leader in industrial enzymes and microbial solutions, with a nearly 50% market share in both. The firm supplies a wide range of industry groups: household care, food and beverages, bioenergy, agriculture and feed, technical and pharmaceuticals. Its biological solutions create value for its customers by improving yield efficiency and performance, while saving energy and generating less waste. The company is headquartered in Denmark, employs more than 11,000 people, and works across more than 30 research and development and application centers and 23 manufacturing sites.

CF Industries is a leading producer and distributor of nitrogen, which is primarily used in fertilizers. The company operates nitrogen manufacturing plants primarily in North America. CF also produces nitrogen in the United Kingdom and holds a joint venture interest in a nitrogen production facility in Trinidad and Tobago. CF makes nitrogen primarily using low-cost US natural gas as its feedstock, making the company one of the lowest-cost nitrogen producers globally. It is also investing in carbon-free blue and green ammonia, which can be used as an alternative fuel to hydrogen or as a means to transport hydrogen.

Bunge Global SA is an agribusiness solutions company, connecting farmers to consumers and delivering essential food, feed and fuel to the globe. The company segments include Soybean Processing and Refining; Softseed Processing and Refining; Other Oilseeds Processing and Refining; Grain Merchandising and Milling; and Corporate and Other. It generates maximum revenue from the Soybean Processing and Refining segment, which includes integrated business principally involved in the purchase, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, refining, marketing, and sale of soybeans and soybean related products, as well as biodiesel and fertilizer production and distribution. Geographically, the company operates in United States, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Rest of the World.

Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co Ltd operates in the dry inland Qarhan Salt Lake in Qinghai province. It is engaged in salt lake resource extraction and potash production. The company is engaged in the manufacture of chemical raw materials and chemical products. The company's main products include potassium chloride and lithium carbonate.

Industries Qatar QSC, along with its subsidiaries, operates in the following reportable segments: Petrochemicals, Fertilisers, and Steel. Maximum revenue is generated from the Fertilisers segment, which produces and sells urea, ammonia, and other by-products. The Petrochemicals segment produces and sells ethylene, polyethylene, MTBE, methanol, and other petrochemical products; and the Steel segment produces and sells steel pellets, bars, billets, and others.

Wens Foodstuff Group Co Ltd operates as a livestock and poultry farming company in China. The company offers fresh meat products and processed products, including chicken, pig, duck, milk, egg, cooked chicken, deep-sea fish, sheep, pigeons, and other products. It also provides raw milk and finished milk, such as pasteurized milk, fermented milk, sterilized milk, milk-containing beverages, and other various categories of products.

Wilmar International Ltd is a processor of palm and lauric oils and a producer of consumer pack edible oils. Its operating segment includes Food Products; Feed and Industrial Products; Plantation and Sugar Milling, Associates and Joint Ventures and others. The company generates maximum revenue from the Feed and Industrial Products segment. Its Feed and Industrial Products segment comprises the processing, merchandising, and distribution of products, which includes animal feeds, non-edible palm and lauric products, agricultural commodities, oleochemicals, gas oil, and biodiesel. Geographically, it derives a majority of revenue from the People's Republic of China.

SABIC Agri-Nutrient Co is engaged in the production, conversion, manufacturing, and trade of agri-nutrients and chemical products. Also, the Company is engaged in the marketing of agri-nutrient products of all types inside and outside KSA. The Group is organised into two segments; The Agri-Nutrients and The Petrochemicals. The majority of revenue is derived from the Agri-Nutrients segment.

Mowi ASA is a Norway-based producer of farmed salmon, distributing salmon and other processed seafood globally. The company focuses on producing high-quality fish by producing its fish eggs and nurturing the fish in the early stages of their life. It operates in three business segments: Feed, Farming, and Sales & Marketing. Fish feed production comprises its two feed plants in Norway and Scotland. Farming includes a single operating segment composed of farming operations in Norway, Scotland, Canada, Chile, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland, and Sales and Marketing is composed of two operating segments: Markets and Consumer Products. A majority of the company's revenue is generated from the Sales and Marketing business. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from Europe.

Yara International is an Oslo-headquartered global crop-nutrition and industrial-chemicals company. It manufactures and markets nitrogen fertilizers, ammonia, crop-nutrition products and selected industrial solutions through a worldwide production and distribution network. Its customers include farmers, agricultural retailers, industrial companies and distributors in global fertilizer markets. Revenue comes principally from sales of fertilizer, ammonia and related chemical products. The company traces its roots to Norsk Hydro’s 1905 fertilizer business and was separately listed as Yara in 2004. Yara acquired Saskferco in 2008 from Mosaic, Investment Saskatchewan and Citibank and now operates the Belle Plaine facility.

SalMar ASA produces and sells farmed salmon internationally. It operates hatcheries and controls the farming at all stages until the fish are ready to be harvested, processed, and packaged into various products. Products are developed with new mixes and packing methods to make them more convenient for customers. The salmon are sold through an in-house salesforce and close partners of the company. Proximity to customers and tracking the use of resources play a factor in delivering the raw material.

Corteva is an agricultural inputs pure play that was formed in 2019 when it was spun off from DowDuPont. The company is a leader in the development of new seed and crop protection products. Seeds generate the majority of profits with the remainder coming from crop protection products. Corteva plans to spin off its seeds business in late 2026 and will become a pure-play crop protection company following the divestiture. Corteva operates globally, but around half of revenue comes from North America.

Tongwei is the world's largest polysilicon producer and a leading solar cell and module supplier. The solar business contributed more than 60% of revenue in 2024. In addition, Tongwei runs a feed and food business, which made up 35% of revenue in 2024.

The Mosaic Company is a US-listed producer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. It mines and processes mineral resources and supplies fertiliser products to agricultural customers and distributors across global markets. Revenue comes from the sale of commodity and value-added crop-nutrition products, supported by mining, processing and logistics assets. The company was created in 2004 and operates major assets in the United States and Canada, making it a direct operating exposure to agricultural inputs and resources. The Mosaic Company serves B2B customers through activities spanning Chemicals, Agriculture and Metals & Mining. Its commercial model generates revenue through Product sales and Wholesale Distribution, supported by sector expertise, operating execution and customer relationships.

Fertilizer and crop protection company, part of the Murugappa group. It makes phosphatic and complex fertilizers, specialty nutrients and agrochemicals, and runs rural retail outlets serving farmers. Headquartered in Secunderabad (Hyderabad).

Fertiglobe PLC is engaged in the production of urea, ammonia, and other gas-based fertilizers for export and distribution. The company's portfolio of products comprises ammonia, urea for agricultural and industrial customers, and DEF, which is also known as AdBlue in Europe and marketed as AdGreen by FERTIL, for industrial customers. The company operates in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Oceania. Majority of revenue is from Europe.

Vinamilk is Vietnam's leading dairy producer and a major listed consumer-products company. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, it manufactures liquid milk, powdered milk, yoghurt, condensed milk, beverages, ice cream and nutritional products. The group operates dairy farms, production plants and a nationwide distribution network while exporting to dozens of markets. Revenue is generated from branded product sales to retailers, distributors, institutions and consumers. Vinamilk held an estimated 58% share of Vietnam's liquid-milk market around the 2017 strategic investment. SCIC remained its largest state shareholder while selling minority blocks to international investors. The two retained SCIC sales are secondary strategic placements in the same operating company and must use one existing Vinamilk identity.

State-owned fertilizer and chemicals maker in Kerala. It produces complex fertilizers such as Factamfos, ammonium sulphate and caprolactam, selling mainly to farmers through dealers. Headquartered in Udyogamandal, Kochi.

UPL Ltd is principally engaged in the business of manufacturing and sale of crop protection products. The firm's crop protection portfolio includes fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators, rodenticides, and specialty crop chemicals. The firm's seed products consist of nutri-feeds, seeds, and seed treatment products. UPL competes on price with the manufacture and sale of generic products. The company generates its revenue globally, with sales in various countries, and derives a majority share of its revenue from its business outside India. The firm sells its products through a distribution network in each region.

Scotts Miracle-Gro is the largest purveyor of home lawn and gardening products in the US. The company sells a broad range of lawncare products, including grass seed, fertilizer, and lawn-related weed, animal, and disease control. US consumer typically generates the vast majority of companywide revenue and profits. Its lawncare and gardening products are well-recognized brands in the US, including Scotts, Miracle-Gro, Roundup, Ortho, and Tomcat.

Oman India Fertiliser Co SAOG is a joint venture between Oman and India, focused on the production of ammonia and urea. The Company operates a two-train ammonia and a two-train urea fertiliser manufacturing facility in Oman, with a nameplate production capacity of approximately 1.15 million metric tonnes of ammonia per annum and around 1.65 million metric tonnes of urea per annum. mIt combines Oman's energy advantage - leveraging abundant natural gas as its primary feedstock - with India's agricultural demand as its key offtake market, creating a platform for growth in other markets.

PI Industries Ltd manufactures, distributes, and sells agrochemicals, specialty fertilizers, and seeds to the agriculture industry. The firm's agrochemicals portfolio includes insecticides, fungicides, and plant health products. The company competes on price with the manufacture and sale of generic products. PI Industries reports sales across two geographical segments: within India and outside India. The outside India division represents its business division predominantly in Japan, Germany, and China. In India, the firm sells its products through a large network of distributors and retail outlets. The company has one reportable business segment which is Agro Chemicals.

Bakkafrost P/F is a salmon producer based in the Faroe Islands. The company's activities include farming, harvesting, packaging, processing, and sales. The salmon products consist of whole salmon, frozen salmon portions, salmon heads, backbones, belly flaps, and salmon skin. Bakkafrost divides its operations into segments namely, Fishmeal, oil and feed segment, Freshwater FO segment, Farming FO segment, Freshwater SCT segment, Farming SCT segment, services, sales, and others. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Western Europe.

Golden Agri-Resources Ltd is an integrated palm oil plantation company. It operates through two segments namely Plantations and palm oil mills, and Palm, laurics, and others. The plantation and palm oil mills segment comprises the products from the upstream business. The Palm, laurics and others comprise the processing and merchandising of palm and oilseed-based products i.e. bulk, branded, oleo-chemicals and other vegetable oils. The majority of the revenue is generated from the Palm, laurics and other segments. Geographically, the company operates in China, Indonesia, India, Rest of Asia, Europe and Others.

K+S AG produces two products: fertilizer and salt. The company engaged in business with potash and magnesium products from plants in Germany and Canadian sites in Bethune, as well as the European salt activities. It also includes the waste disposal and recycling business in Germany. extraction and processing of raw materials.

Olam Group Ltd is a food and agri-business supplying customers with food ingredients, feed, and fibre. The company and its subsidiaries operate in the following business segments: Olam Food Ingredients, Olam Global Agri, and the Remaining Olam Group. It generates maximum revenue from the Olam Global Agri segment, which is engaged in the origination, processing, trading, logistics, and distribution of grains, animal feed and protein, edible oil, rice, cotton, rubber, and wood products. It also provides commodity financial services. Geographically, the company derives majority of its revenue from Asia, the Middle East, and Australia, and the rest from Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

KWS SAAT SE & Co KGaA breeds and distributes agriculture seeds internationally. The segments of the company focus on sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, and corporates. The company works on breeding new varieties and seed multiplication to produce the results for farmers. Plants and seeds are monitored at different stages of the lifecycle to ensure high quality. Products, processes, and consulting are marketed to farmers as certain expertise is needed in different regions of the world. The company generates key revenue from Sugarbeet and Corn.

Hatsun Agro Product processes milk and sells dairy products such as milk, curd, ice cream and ghee under brands including Arun, Arun Icecreams and Ibaco. It buys milk from farmers in southern India and sells through retail distribution and its own parlours. It is one of India's largest private dairy companies. Headquartered in Chennai.

BF is an Italian holding company active across the agro-industrial supply chain, from farming to food products. It was founded in Milan on 30 May 2014 as B.F. Holding and has its registered office in Jolanda di Savoia in the province of Ferrara. The group grew around Bonifiche Ferraresi, an agricultural company that farms 7,750 hectares and is the largest Italian farm by utilised agricultural area. Its other businesses include seeds, pasta, couscous and organic food, and it invests in agricultural consortia and food companies. B.F. S.p.A. has been listed on Borsa Italiana since 23 June 2017, where it trades under the ticker BFG and sits in the FTSE Italia Mid Cap index. Federico Vecchioni is executive chairman and Rossella Locatelli is chair of the board. The group describes its approach as controlling the production chain from the genome to the shelf.

Andersons Inc is an agriculture and renewable fuels company. Its operations are classified into two reportable business segments: Agribusiness, which generates maximum revenue, and Renewables. The Agribusiness segment includes merchandising and managing logistics across various commodities, as well as being a manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of agricultural and related plant nutrients. The segment specializes in the movement of physical commodities such as whole grains, grain products, feed ingredients, and domestic fuel products, among other agricultural commodities. The Renewables segment mainly produces, purchases, and sells ethanol and co-products. Geographically, the company generates maximum revenue from the United States, followed by Canada, Mexico, and other markets.

Genus PLC is an animal genetics company focused on improving cattle and pig populations to support sustainable food production. The company operates through two main business units: one providing bovine genetics mainly for dairy and beef cattle, and the other offering porcine genetics for pork production. Genus develops genetically superior breeding animals using scientific techniques. It generates revenue by selling genetics, including semen and embryos, as well as through related services under multi-year royalty agreements. The principal activities of each segment are: (a) Genus PIC porcine sales business, (b) Genus ABS: bovine sales business, and (c) Genus Research and Development: spending on research and development.

Biomar Group AS is a provider of feed solutions for farmed fish and shrimp to the aquaculture industry. Its operations include feed production, product development, and aquaculture-related services. Geographically, the company has a presence in Norway, Chile, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, France, Vietnam, Greece, Turkey, China, Ecuador, Australia, Costa Rica, and other countries. Its business segments are: Salmon, Shrimp, Selected Species, and Tech Solutions. The majority of revenue is derived from the Salmon segment.

Batu Kawan Bhd is a holding company that focuses on harvesting palm trees and manufacturing and selling rubber and chemical products through its subsidiaries. The firm operates through four segments: plantation, manufacturing, property development, and investment holdings/others. The manufacturing segment generates majority revenue through selling a variety of chemical-based products, including oleochemicals, industrial amides, rubber gloves, and esters. The plantation segment generates the second portion of total revenue by cultivating and processing palm trees into both fresh fruit bunches and rubber products. Geographically, the firm operates in Asia, Europe, Americas, and Africa, with the majority of its revenue generated from Asian and European countries.

Austevoll Seafood ASA is a fishery and seafood company that owns and operates fishing vessels, fishmeal plants, canning plants, freezing plants, salmon farming, and marketing and sales. The company mainly operates in Norway, the U.K., Peru, Chile, and North Atlantic region. AUSS's activities are segmented as Leroy Seafood Group ASA (Europe), Austral Group S.A.A (Peru), Foodcorp Chile S.A (Chile), Br. Birkeland AS (Norway), Br. Birkeland Farming AS (Norway) and the joint venture Pelagia Holding AS (Europe). Among the segments, Leroy Seafood Group ASA (Europe) generates the majority of the group's income.

UIE PLC is a holding company which invests in the agro-industrial sector. The company through its subsidiaries is involved in the business of cultivation and processing of palm oil and coconuts in Malaysia and Indonesia as well as focuses on long-term industrial development. The company has two reportable segments such as UIE and UP. UIE is a holding company which invests in the agro-industrial sector as well as industrial and technology businesses. UP segment includes a company incorporated in Malaysia, and its shares are publicly traded on Bursa Malaysia. Its primary business activity is the cultivation of oil palms and coconuts and the processing of palm oil in Malaysia and Indonesia. Company also has sales in USA, Europe and Other Countries.

Sildarvinnslan HF is the largest and most powerful fishery company. It is the most active in Iceland in the field of fishing and processing of pelagic species and the largest producer of fishmeal and fish oil.

Premier Group Ltd is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of staple milling and baking products, confectionery and home and personal care (HPC) products. The company is organized into two segments Millbake and Groceries and International. It derives maximum revenue from Millbake segment.

Sumitomo Chemical India makes and sells crop protection chemicals, household insecticides, and nutrition products for farmers and public health. It is a subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical, Japan. Headquartered in Mumbai.

COSUMAR SA is a Moroccan company specializing in sugar extraction, refining, and sugar packaging. The company's product portfolio includes sugar loaves, the lump, granulated sugar, ingots, pellets, bagasse, and molasses.

Presco PLC is engaged in the cultivation of oil palms and the extraction, refining and fractioning of crude palm oil into vegetable oil and palm stearin. It produces specialty fats and oils. The company's products include Special Palm Oil, Refined, Bleached and Deodorised Palm Oil, palm olein, palm stearin, palm fatty acid distillate, palm kernel oil (crude and refined), and palm kernel cake. It generates revenue from the sales of crude and refined products , Sales of Fresh Fruit Bunches, and Mill by-products. Geographically the group has a business presence in Nigeria and Ghana, of which key revenue is derived from operations within Nigeria.

Tata Chemicals makes soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, salt and nutrition and agri products, with plants in India, the UK, the US and Kenya. It sells to glass, detergent and food makers, and to consumers under the Tata Salt brand. Headquartered in Mumbai.

SLC Agricola SA is an agricultural company. Its core business activities include the production and sale of seeds and saplings; the processing and trading of its products, the supply of primary agricultural goods and products; the rendering of inbound logistics, cleaning, drying and storage services as well as rendering services of agricultural machinery and equipment to third parties; the trading, import and export of agricultural products; and processing of sugarcane, ethanol and its byproducts. It operates through two business segments viz. The agricultural production segment comprises the cultivation of cotton, soybean and corn and the Land portfolio segment includes the acquisition and development of land for agriculture. Its products are cotton, corn, soybean, and other.

Bayer CropScience India sells crop protection chemicals, seeds and traits, and environmental science products to farmers through distributors. It is the Indian arm of Bayer. Headquartered in Mumbai.

Chambal Fertilisers makes urea and distributes DAP, complex fertilisers and crop protection products, plus agri-inputs and farm services. It sells to farmers through dealers, mainly in northern India. Operates urea plants in Rajasthan and is headquartered in Gurugram.