BIS Research: Analysis of Global Agricultural Adjuvant Marke Dynamics and Trends

Identifying this increasing demand for crop/plant safety, companies have come up with agricultural adjuvants, which assist in maximizing the quality, productivity and sustainability of the agricultural production systems, disease vector management in the public health systems, and in other industrial and residential areas. These do not directly kill pests, instead, these modify certain properties of the spray solution, which improves the ability of the pesticide to penetrate, target or protect the target organism.

The agricultural adjuvants market encompasses a wide array of product types, such as activators, utility modifiers and others, including thickening agents, spreaders and stickers. The activator modifiers dominated the global agricultural adjuvants market in 2017, with a market share of more than 50% in value and more than 40% in volume. This type of adjuvant is also expected to see the best growth prospects by 2022 due to its application on a large-scale to increase the efficiency of crop protection products. These modifiers work to improve the biological performance of pesticides by altering their characteristics: be it the particle size, thickness of the spray or herbicide solubility in the spray solution. Though comparatively less utilized, spray modifiers change the physicochemical characteristics of the spray solution.