Businessweek

Devgen NV, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the development of next generation hybrid rice, biotech traits, and crop protection solutions. The company offers hybrid seeds for rice, sorghum, pearl millet, and sunflower. It also develops novel nematicide, an agro-chemical product that protects various crops, such as potato, carrots, cucumber, melons, bananas, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and peanuts under the Devguard and Enclosure brand names. The company markets its products primarily in Europe, the United States, India, and South East Asia. Devgen NV was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. As of January 25, 2013, deVGen NV operates as a subsidiary of Syngenta AG.