R&D Expenditures
Research and development at KWS take place in the department "Institute of plant breeding" as well as in PLANTA GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of KWS.
- R&D expenditure: about 81 Mio. Euro
- ca. 15 % of turnover spent continuously on research and development
- 1000 employees work in research and development, of whom ca. 100 are scientists and technical assistant work in basis research
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Integration of biotechnology into plant breeding, a close connection between the classical plant breeding and biotechnology
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the activities of the KWS Group are in more than 68 countries