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Top 12 Crop genetics companies based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 25 crop genetics companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 1,026 professional contacts across them, including 292 with verified work emails. Johannesburg is the largest hub.
This list covers crop genetics companies headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 12 largest crop genetics companies based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 234 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With 140 years experience in the development, production and marketing of high yielding vegetable seed, our distribution network extends from its headquarters in Johannesburg…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Villa is a market leader in South Africa in crop protection products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seed Co develops and markets certified crop seeds, mainly hybrid maize seed, but also wheat, soya bean, barley, sorghum and groundnut seeds.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rolfes Agri, a Solevo Group company since end of the year 2024, is a proudly South African pioneer in agricultural solutions, with decades of experience developing high-quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ExperiCo is a privately owned company offering scientific research, technology development, advisory and commercial services to the agriculture industry and other business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CAPSTONE SEEDS SOUTH AFRICA is a privately owned Agricultural Seed company whose Head Office is situated in Howick, a small town 100 kms from the port of Durban, just off the main…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The go-to company for seed-growing services for a range of crops and climate types, Pidelta has a long history and an excellent track record in the areas of crop production…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Enza Zaden Africa is part of the global Enza Zaden family, an international, family-run breeding company dedicated to developing, producing, and distributing vegetable seeds…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe that the time has come to harness innovative technologies to enable us to produce food in a more responsible and efficient way, in order to meet the challenges and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AfriNat is a national research and development, technical advisory and manufacturer of agricultural products, specializing in the marketing and distribution of innovative, “next…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InteliSeed supplies high-quality agri-seeds and seed treatment through a countrywide network in South Africa, with a team of seed specialists to support our growers with technical…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a consulting company for the development of agricultural crop protection and nutritional products as well as crop varieties, and have been operating under the Asearch…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: crop genetics companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names crop genetics companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of crop genetics companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name crop genetics companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Crop genetics companies based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 25 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among crop genetics companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “crop genetics companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names crop genetics companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among crop genetics companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 292 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names crop genetics companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many crop genetics companies are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 25 crop genetics companies headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Starke Ayres PTY LTD, headquartered in Kempton Park, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most crop genetics companies?
Johannesburg leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Pretoria (3) and Bethlehem (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 292 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 25 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.