Australian Chemical Seed Treatment Market Growth, Trends and Forecasts (2015-2020)

Seed treatment can be defined as the application of chemical ingredients or biological organisms to the seed that enables in suppressing, controlling or repelling plant pathogens, insects, or other pests that attack seeds, seedlings or plants. The Australia Chemical seed treatment market was worth around $26 million in 2015 and is expected to cross $38.48 million by 2020 growing at the CAGR of 8.1% during the forecast period 2015-2020.

The growth in seed treatment industry is largely fuelled by increasing farm sizes and rising concerns over its quality and safety due to harmful effects of chemicals to environment. Thus, some major drivers of the seed treatment industry are rise in the seed costs, crop rotations getting shorter and greater use of multi-component products. The poor farmers in Australia are adopting organic techniques which have a lower environment impact which is driving the market.

Major restraints identified in this report are regulatory structure intervention regarding entry, concerns for the environment and regulation of seed treatment market. Major opportunities are fastest growth rate for biological agents and Australia has a fastest growth rate in seed treatment market.

Australia market holds 8% of the Asia-Pacific market revenue by 2020. The Asia-pacific market is expected to have a high CAGR of 10.6% due to increasing demand for high yield crop products in the region and rising organic crop production, especially in China, India, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore.

Within this application category, insecticides constitute the largest sub-category, with an estimated 2015 share of 54.6% of chemical seed treatment demand. However, fungicide seed treatments are slated to witness the fastest CAGR of 8.6% during 2015-2020 in reaching a projected demand of US$13.42 million by 2020.

Wheat is the leading type of crop for chemical seed treatment applications in Australia, estimated to account for 22.6% of the total demand in 2015. In terms of CAGR between 2015 and 2020, however, demand for seed treatment applications in corn is expected to be the second fastest crop among all crop types at 8.3% CAGR, Asia remains the hub of rice production, with many countries in the region growing more than one crop per season.

Some of the key companies in the market are Adama, Novozymes, Chemtura, Syngenta and Others. The key players are focusing to expand their business in Asia-Pacific regions. The leading players in this market adopted various strategies to strengthen the market opportunities and increase their market shares. Acquisitions, agreements & joint ventures are the major strategies adopted by major players.

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• Market Definition for the specified topic along with identification of key drivers and restraints for the market.
• Market analysis for the Australia Chemical Seed Treatment Market, with region specific assessments and competition analysis on a global and regional scale.
• Identification of factors instrumental in changing the market scenarios, rising prospective opportunities and identification of key companies which can influence the market on a global and regional scale.
• Extensively researched competitive landscape section with profiles of major companies along with their share of markets.
• Identification and analysis of the Macro and Micro factors that affect the Australia Chemical Seed Treatment Market on both global and regional scale.
• A comprehensive list of key market players along with the analysis of their current strategic interests and key financial information.

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