8 fuerzas que definen a la próxima generación de ganadores en la protección de cultivos.
6 de agosto de 2026 
Steve Pearce, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Chemovateq Swiss Ag Investments and Chairman of Accumont, presented at the AgriBusiness Global™ Trade Summit on 5 August 2026 in Las Vegas, NV.
As artificial intelligence use increases, the global playing field for crop protection formulators and manufacturers will be flattened.
Steve Pearce, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Chemovateq Swiss Ag Investments and Chairman of Acumont, presented at the Cumbre Comercial Global de Agronegocios™ on 5 August 2026 in Las Vegas, NV, outlining industry changes that could lead to new opportunities for crop protection companies.
One main point Pearce made is the industry, in terms of new discovery, is changing quickly and this means companies with “the largest R&D budgets or with the broadest portfolios” won’t necessarily be the ones who are guaranteed to be first to market with new and innovative molecules.
“It will be those that build the most effective ecosystems of partners and collaborators,” Pearce says. “As innovation becomes both faster, more multidisciplinary and delivery models more capital intensive, collaboration not competition, will increasingly define advantage.”
Here were his top eight takeaways for change that is creating new opportunities for companies:
- Restructuring will continue to reshape the competitive landscape through portfolio rationalization, patent expiration and strategic divestments. This convergence is blending chemistry, biologicals, digital agriculture, AI and precision application into integrated crop solutions and this convergence will continue to gather pace.
- Value chain collaboration will increasingly displace vertically integrated business models with networks of specialist partners.
- New business models, including licensing, co-development, manufacturing alliances and data partnerships will create opportunities that would have been unlikely a decade ago.
- Strategic implication will be that competitive advantage and increasingly come from orchestrating partnerships across the crop protection ecosystem rather than relying solely on proprietary products.
- China will become a major source of new a novel chemistry and not just generics. China has a larger research workforce, invests more in applied chemistry, has faster development cycles and benefits from lower discovery costs.
- China is unlikely to replace Japan as the World’s premier source of truly differentiated discovery (certainly not by 2035). Japanese chemistry remains exceptional and excels in selectivity, low use rates, environmental profile, formulation compatibility and quality of intellectual property.
- China could well rival and even exceed Japan in the number of commercialized new active ingredients entering the market. “We are already seeing the early signs of this trend and it will gather pace,” said Pearce. This being based on its heavy investment into AI driven molecular discovery, computational chemistry, high through-out screening, CRDMO structures, more structured university and industry collaborations, returning overseas trained scientists and experts and domestic venture capital supporting agricultural technology.
- This leveling of the playing field based on access to proprietary compounds could create significant opportunity market access companies involving several interested ecosystem partners.
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