RAGT’s CSR commitment
As a key player in agriculture, the RAGT Group is driving its growth with a strong focus on CSR, embedding social responsibility at the heart of everything it does.
Our vision
For over 100 years, RAGT has driven innovation in technology, expertise, and people, delivering solutions that empower agriculture to meet its evolving challenges.
By developing social progress and implementing CSR as the basis of its organisation, the RAGT Group champions and shares its commitments throughout every aspect of its business.
CSR is becoming a cornerstone of our organisational structure, actively helping to shape the strategic priorities across the entire RAGT Group
Our strategic priorities
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Reducing our environmental footprint
Aligned with the National Low Carbon Strategy, RAGT drives eco-friendly practices across its operations and the agricultural sector.
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Commitment to quality of work life and conditions
Committed to its employees’ well-being, RAGT places the highest priority on workplace safety.
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Transition towards sustainable agriculture
Through varietal innovation, local presence and expertise in the field, RAGT is actively involved in building more resilient and virtuous agricultural models for the future.
Actions
Focus area 1
Reducing our environmental impact
- Carrying out a carbon assessment of scopes 1, 2 & 3 to identify the main emission sources and prepare the Group's climate trajectory
- Modernising facilities to reduce their carbon impact and improve their energy performance (geothermal energy at RAGT Seeds UK, photovoltaic production plant in Albi, deployment of LEDs at industrial sites, etc.).
- Contributing to the decarbonisation of agriculture by using measurement tools to assess the carbon impact of our seed solutions
- Genotyping varieties adapted to climate change: increasing the proportion of drought-tolerant maize varieties, developing hybrid wheat seeds, etc.
Focus area 2
Improving quality of work life and conditions
- Drawing up a "Health and Safety Management" programme to structure this area and develop internal preventive actions
- Supporting employees with disabilities and raising awareness among all staff and managers about the importance of inclusion and working together
- Negotiating a new working time agreement to promote work-life balance for employees
Focus area 3
Transition to sustainable agriculture
- Continuation of the "Cap Jeune" scheme to support new start-ups (Livetock / Plant Production)
- Structuring sustainable supply chains throughout the RAGT value chain by offering local, ethical and sustainable products and fair remuneration for farmers (insecticide-free soft wheat supply chain, "Nos blés d'ici" soft wheat supply chain with "Agri éthique" label, 100% French-produced top-quality durum wheat supply chain).
- Our Agricultural Distribution business (Plateau Central) has joined the PADV movement (Pour une Agriculture Du Vivant), which aims to promote soil regeneration.
Key figures
- 18% of RAGT Semences sales dedicated to research
- 70% of seed production is carried out in France
- 2M animals fed every day
- 500 employees dedicated to research and innovation
Our CSR reports
- CSR Report 2023-2024 Download the document
- CSR Report 2022-2023 Download the document
- CSR Report 2021-2022 Download the document
- CSR Report 2020-2021 Download the document
- CSR Report 2019-2020 Download the document
