Origin Agritech LTD

Origin Agritech Limited is an agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in crop seed breeding and genetic improvement, focusing primarily on corn seed development and distribution. The company develops transgenic seed products and genetic traits, including herbicide tolerance, insect resistance, nitrogen utilization efficiency, and drought stress tolerance, alongside nutrition-enhanced and gene-edited varieties. Origin Agritech partners with domestic seed companies and research institutes to license its biotechnology traits and introgress them into commercial crop varieties for agricultural producers.

The company operates primarily across the People's Republic of China, maintaining an agricultural biotechnology research center in Beijing and winter research operations in Hainan Province. It oversees regional seed distribution joint ventures located across multiple Chinese provinces, including Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Henan, while managing an operational entity in Xinjiang and a limited-operation subsidiary in New Jersey, United States. Origin Agritech maintains its principal executive offices and R&D center in Beijing, China.

Summary of the business section of Origin Agritech's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“We currently have 54 employees, including management, managers and research and related personnel.”