NICHINO Group has pursued technological innovation in its core business involving the research, development, manufacture, and promotion of agrochemicals, with the mission of ensuring a safe and steady food supply and improving the quality of life for all. In promoting sustainability management, which is the basic strategy of the medium-term management plan launched in FY2024, we have reassessed the Group’s raison d’être, revised part of our Basic Principles and Action Charter, and established our Value Creation Process. As a “Global Innovator for Crop & Life,” we will take on the challenge of creating new value by providing advanced technologies and contribute to achieving a sustainable society through our business activities.

NICHINO Group’s vision is to be a “Global Innovator for Crop & Life.” We have established our Value Creation Process by integrating the six forms of capital we have accumulated, our Seven Priority Issues (Materiality) based on the resolution of social issues, and a unique business model that drives these elements to achieve our vision. The Group’s strength lies in our “four-in-one” research and development system and our manufacturing and sales sites, which are connected through a strong network enabled by globalization and localization. Based on this strong network, we effectively utilize cross-cutting systems that bridge Group companies and business sectors, enabling the analysis and sharing of detailed information on market and value chain trends in real time. Based on this information, we implement strategic responses that enable the continuous technological innovation of new crop aid products and new business areas, creating new value. As a result, we will contribute to enriching people’s diets and lifestyles, providing new economic and social value, as well as achieving the ideal business model that we envision for the Group.

This Value Creation Process is built on the Group’s Basic Principles, in the context of our Sustainability Basic Policy, as well as a governance system that appropriately promotes these principles, our DX initiatives linked to workstyle reform, and the human capital that is the source of these initiatives. The Group’s values include customer satisfaction and social contribution. To achieve these values, we visualize three elements- “unique technology,” “globalization & localization,” and “entrepreneurship”—as the Nichino HC (Human Capital) Values. The combination of these elements further strengthens our unique strengths, leading to value creation.