A message from our Managing Director & CEO
At Nufarm, we are proud to support people, business partners, customers and investors in evolving agriculture.
“The agricultural industry faces new challenges as we work to provide the world with enough affordable food, feed, fuel and fibre. At Nufarm, we are focused on how we continue to deliver solutions that help our customers meet these evolving challenges whilst reducing the impact on the environment.”
The safety of our people and the customers we service is our most important priority. I am very sad to report that during the year, one of our sales people in the Indonesian business tragically lost his life in a motorbike accident on his way home from work. The loss of a colleague is deeply felt across the business.
In FY25 our Long-Term Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) increased from 1.55 in FY24 to 2.78. Turning around our injury trend is a priority in FY26 and beyond, with initiatives underway to strengthen our safety culture and our safety leadership across our entire operations.
During FY25, we have made good progress on our sustainability targets across emissions, waste and improved environmental systems.
Over the last 5 years, we have successfully reduced operational hazardous waste from our crop protection manufacturing sites by 23 per cent, overachieving on the 20 per cent reduction target we set back in 2020. We also achieved our target of 10 manufacturing sites being ISO 14001 accredited, reflecting a systemic uplift in our environmental policies and processes. These sites comprise over 99 per cent of our crop protection production volume.
As communicated last year, we have not met our target of reducing our volatile organic compound emissions from our crop protection manufacturing sites. After exploring various options, we plan to adopt technology that we expect will enable us to outperform our 25 per cent reduction target, but it is taking longer to implement.
We are progressing well towards our 2030 targets. Our 2030 target for scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions remains on track as we continue to explore ways to lower emissions at our synthesis plants. We have a range of programs in place to support the delivery of our gender diversity targets of at least 40 per cent women across our workforce by 2030, focusing on driving change in our manufacturing, technology and commercial areas.
At Nufarm, we have a longstanding commitment to innovation and partnerships. Our investments in research and development continue to deliver more efficient crop protection solutions to support farmers produce food more affordably, with better yield, more resilience and less environmental impact. In bioenergy, the production of oil from crops like carinata is helping hard to abate sectors like aviation and shipping reduce emissions. And our world first, plant-based source of omega-3 has the potential to support human health and nutrition with significantly lower environmental impact than harvesting omega-3 from wild fish stocks.
More detail about our ESG targets and performance can be found in this report, our 2025 ESG Impact Statement. This year we have also prepared a standalone Climate Statement, an important step as we progress our climate-related disclosures towards the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards (ASRS) ASAB S2 mandatory reporting obligations, which become effective for Nufarm in 2026.
Read our 2025 ESG Impact Statement here.
Read our 2025 Climate Statement here.
Looking ahead, we recognise that the journey toward sustainability is ongoing. We are dedicated to setting targets and collaborating with our stakeholders to drive meaningful change in our operations and across the industry.
Thank you for your continued support and partnership as we work toward a more sustainable future.
Greg Hunt
Managing Director & CEO