Chinese-owned Syngenta to build new £100m bioscience hub in UK

Syngenta, one of the world’s biggest agrichemical groups, said the new hub would focus on a range of technologies, such as biological pesticides. Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters

Syngenta is to build a new £100m research centre for agricultural bioscience, a move hailed by the government as a vote of confidence in the UK’s science base.

The Chinese-owned company, one of the biggest agrichemical groups in the world, will open the centre at its Jealott’s Hill site in Berkshire to host hundreds of scientists.