Syngenta AG Presents at Credit Suisse Global Ag Productivity and Consumer Chemicals Conference, May-21-2013 . Venue: London, United Kingdom.

Syngenta and DuPont announced technology licensing agreements that will broaden each company's crop protection product portfolio and enable both to bring new products to market more efficiently. Syngenta has obtained a global license from DuPont to develop products containing DuPont's fungicide oxathiapiprolin. The development of this new piperidinyl thiazole isoxazoline class of fungicides represents a significant improvement for growers in the control of diseases in potatoes, grapes, vegetables and other specialty crops. Under the agreements, Syngenta receives exclusive rights for foliar and soil uses on all crops in North America and for lawn and garden uses globally. Syngenta also secures rights on certain crops for seed treatment globally and for the development of foliar and soil uses on certain crops outside of North America. The agreement gives DuPont exclusive access to Syngenta's Solatenol(TM) for mixture with DuPont's picoxystrobin fungicide on soybean and other crops in Brazil. Solatenol(TM) is a new benz-pyrazole SDHI fungicide which brings a new mode of action with no cross-resistance to existing fungicides. It offers outstanding and long-lasting control of Asian rust in soybean.

Syngenta AG approved a dividend of CHF 9.50 per share, an increase of 19% over the previous year at the annual general meeting held on April 23, 2013. Martin Taylor retired from his position as Chairman of the Board having completed his term of office and, as previously announced, is succeeded by Michel Demaré who was appointed to the Board at the AGM in 2012. Peggy Bruzelius, Peter Thompson and Felix A. Weber also retired from the Board, having completed their terms of office. Eleni Gabre-Madhin, co-founder and CEO of eleni LLC, and Eveline Saupper, Partner and Director with commercial law firm Homburger AG in Zurich, were elected as new members of the Board.