Seed Market Analysis by Mordor Intelligence
The seed market size was valued at USD 81.1 billion in 2026 and estimated to grow from USD 85.42 billion in 2027 to reach USD 109.4 billion by 2032, at a CAGR of 5.08% during the forecast period (2027-2032). The seed market volume was valued at 43.88 million metric tons in 2026 and estimated to grow from 44.8 million metric tons in 2027 to reach 49.71 million metric tons by 2032, at a CAGR of 2.1% during the forecast period (2027-2032).
Certified-seed assistance in India supports demand for improved field-crop varieties. Multiplication capacity and protective treatments help suppliers address that demand. High prices in surveyed Somali districts and biosafety delays in Bangladesh constrain access to improved seed. The Strait of Hormuz shipping disruption following U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran from February 2026 adds international delivery risk. Affordability, authorization and delivery before sowing therefore govern whether supplier investment converts into seed sales.
Key Report Takeaways
- By breeding technology, hybrids held a 72.77% seed market share in 2026 and are forecast to grow fastest at a CAGR of 5.25% during 2027-2032.
- Cultivation mechanisms are led by open field, which held a 99.54% share of the seed market size in 2026, while protected cultivation is forecast to grow fastest at a CAGR of 6.95% during 2027-2032.
- Among crop types, row crops accounted for 87.89% of the market in 2026, with vegetables forecast to grow fastest at a CAGR of 5.3% during 2027-2032.
- Across geographies, North America led with 35.18% of the market in 2026 and is forecast to grow fastest at a CAGR of 6.05% during 2027-2032.
Note: Market numbers in this report are based on Mordor Intelligence's proprietary estimation framework, which combines nine months of actuals with Q4 projections for base year 2026.
Market Trends and Insights
Drivers Impact Analysis of Seed Market*
| Driver | (~) % Impact on CAGR Forecast | Geographic Relevance | Impact Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increasing Adoption of Hybrid and GM Seed Varieties to Enhance Crop Yields | +2% | Zambia and United States | Medium term (2-4 years) |
| Technological Advancements in Seed Coating and Treatment Solutions | +1.5% | Cereal-growing areas of the United States | Short term (≤ 2 years) |
| Government Programs Boosting Certified Seed Replacement Rates | +1.3% | Eligible farming regions in India | Short term (≤ 2 years) |
| Rising Demand for High-Value Crops Driven by Population and Diet Shifts | +1.2% | United Kingdom glasshouse-growing regions | Medium term (2-4 years) |
| AI-Enabled Digital Phenotyping Shortening Breeding Cycles | +0.6% | Corn-breeding regions of India | Medium term (2-4 years) |
| Climate-Resilient Seed Traits Attracting Impact Capital | +0.4% | Eastern Africa and India | Long term (≥ 4 years) |
| Source: Mordor Intelligence | |||
Increasing Adoption of Hybrid and GM Seed Varieties to Enhance Crop Yields
Farmers seeking higher yields need both effective varieties and enough seed to plant them. In March 2025, Bayer opened a maize seed facility in Kabwe, Zambia, for conventional hybrid seed. Bayer reported that the facility and related investments tripled its existing in-country capacity for high-quality maize seed production in 2025. Separately, USDA’s Economic Research Service said genetically engineered crops had increased U.S. crop yields in many instances, establishing a qualified performance rationale for those varieties. Tripled maize-seed capacity in Zambia and documented U.S. yield gains from engineered crops together make improved seed easier to supply and easier to justify. Supply capacity therefore sets how many growers can act on that demand.
Technological Advancements in Seed Coating and Treatment Solutions
Seed-treatment advances can strengthen demand for purchased seed by protecting the crop during its vulnerable establishment stage. In 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency registered Syngenta’s Victrato seed treatment for soybeans and cotton, targeting plant-parasitic nematodes and diseases with a single molecule.[1] The agency also registered Syngenta’s upgraded CruiserMaxx Vibrance Elite fungicide and insecticide seed-treatment premix for cereals. These approvals broaden the protection options that seed suppliers can pair with different crop portfolios. For growers, protecting establishment makes the seed decision partly a decision about managing early crop losses. Combining genetics and appropriate protection can give suppliers another way to justify the value of a purchased seed package.
Government Programs Boosting Certified Seed Replacement Rates
Certified-seed assistance connects public support with variety renewal, giving suppliers a route to serve farmers replacing saved seed. India’s National Food Security & Nutrition Mission (NFSNM) guidelines made certified-seed distribution assistance available for FY 2025-26 to enhance seed replacement rates. Assistance was 50% or the amount set by the Seed Division of India’s Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, whichever was less. Main-route eligibility covered notified cereal, coarse cereal, pulse, fiber, and fodder varieties or hybrids no more than 10 years old. States and Union Territories could assist older notified rice, wheat, pulse, coarse-cereal and nutri-cereal varieties within 20% of seed-distribution allocation, provided no suitable replacement existed and the varieties had special traits and benchmark productivity. Their Annual Action Plans had to emphasize those distinctive features, so the exception preserved limited access for older material while directing most supported demand toward newer varieties.
Rising Demand for High-Value Crops Driven by Population and Diet Shifts
Investment in high-value vegetable-growing operations creates a route for planting-seed demand through additional cultivated space. Blackdown Growers completed a UK glasshouse expansion in March 2025, adding 3 acres of production space for baby leaves and aromatic herbs. The grower described the expansion as increasing its capacity for year-round UK production of those crops. Year-round use of the completed space gives leafy-crop seed suppliers a planting base that can be sown repeatedly, extending the opportunity beyond a single seasonal crop.
Restraints Impact Analysis of Seed Market*
| Restraint | (~) % Impact on CAGR Forecast | Geographic Relevance | Impact Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stringent Biosafety Regulations and Multi-Year Approval Timelines | -0.8% | Rice cultivation areas in Bangladesh | Long term (≥ 4 years) |
| Rising Seed Prices Limiting Access for Smallholder Farmers | -0.6% | Selected farming districts in Somalia | Short term (≤ 2 years) |
| Farmer-Led Seed-Saving Movements in Emerging Markets | -0.3% | Vegetable-growing regions of Ghana | Medium term (2-4 years) |
| Uncertain Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) Seed Policies in European Union and China | -0.2% | European Union and China | Medium term (2-4 years) |
| Source: Mordor Intelligence | |||
Stringent Biosafety Regulations and Multi-Year Approval Timelines
A prolonged biosafety review can separate completed breeding work from permission to cultivate a seed variety commercially. By November 2025, Bangladesh’s biosafety committees had reviewed the commercial-cultivation dossier for Golden Rice GR2E BRRI dhan 29 for more than 7 years without approval. The dossier had been submitted in November 2017 for commercial-cultivation, environmental-safety, and food-safety assessment. For a developer, this interval makes the approval pathway a separate commercial bottleneck after the technical work supporting submission. Regulated-seed suppliers face a timing exposure that multiplication capacity cannot resolve, because commercial cultivation depends on the authorization decision.
Rising Seed Prices Limiting Access for Smallholder Farmers
High seed prices can prevent smallholders from turning interest in improved planting material into a commercial seed order. In Somalia’s 2025 seed-market study, 31% of surveyed farmers in selected districts cited high seed prices as an access challenge. Within the study’s coverage, formal-market seed prices were 2 to 3 times higher than informal-market prices because of regulated production and quality assurance. The premium therefore places the cost of those formal safeguards directly into the farmer’s choice between seed channels. When a farmer cannot finance that premium, demonstrating stronger agronomic performance does not by itself unlock the seed sale.
*Our forecasts treat driver/restraint impacts as directional, not additive. The impact forecasts reflect baseline growth, mix effects, and variable interactions.
Seed Market Segment Analysis
By Breeding Technology:
Hybrid Revenue and Export Access Support ExpansionHybrids accounted for a 72.77% share of the seed market size in 2026 and are the largest and fastest-growing segment, with a forecast CAGR of 5.25% during 2027-2032. Kaveri Seed Company Limited’s hybrid-rice seed revenue in India increased 18.3% in FY2025-26. With hybrid-rice volumes up only 0.3%, almost all of the revenue gain reflected higher revenue per unit sold rather than added volume.
Export-market registration gives hybrid breeders a growth route that depends on regulatory access as well as agronomic performance. In FY2025-26, Kaveri Seed Company Limited described hybrid-rice registrations in the Philippines as a key growth driver. The company expected additional registrations to strengthen future export opportunities. For a rice-seed supplier, obtaining registration in a destination can extend the commercial reach of a defined hybrid portfolio. The opportunity therefore includes translating a variety into a saleable offer in each export jurisdiction, with further gains conditional on the additional registrations being obtained.
By Cultivation Mechanism:
Field-Crop Scale Meets Protected-Area ExpansionOpen field represented a 99.54% seed market share in 2026, making it the largest segment. Syngenta Group reported that its 2025 Seeds Field Crop sales in Brazil increased 17% year over year, with Southern Hemisphere performance driving its field-crop business. The same report showed Syngenta’s North America field-crop sales down 12% because of restructuring, so its 2025 field-crop growth rested on Southern Hemisphere demand rather than a broad-based gain.
Protected cultivation is the fastest-growing segment, with a projected CAGR of 6.95% during 2027-2032. In 2025, UK protected-vegetable area increased 4.7% to 866 hectares, while production decreased 0.3% to 258,000 metric tons. These vegetables include crops grown in glasshouses or polythene tunnels. Adding growing area without a corresponding output increase makes the productivity of that space relevant to growers’ commercial returns. Breeders serving glasshouse and tunnel operators can therefore position variety performance alongside the expansion in cultivation capacity when addressing potential seed demand.
By Crop Type:
Row-Crop Revenue Anchors Vegetable Growth OpportunitiesRow crops held 87.89% of the market in 2026 and were the largest segment. Bayer AG reported EUR 7.15 billion (USD 8.08 billion) in Corn Seed & Traits sales in 2025, up 13.2% on a currency- and portfolio-adjusted basis.[2] Bayer attributed growth across all regions to strong product performance, increased planted area and resolution of a licensing agreement in North America. The combination ties row-crop value capture to agronomic performance and licensing outcomes, with planted area explaining only part of Bayer’s reported growth.
Vegetables are the fastest-growing segment, with a forecast CAGR of 5.3% during 2027-2032. Bayer AG’s Vegetable Seeds sales increased 7.5% on a currency- and portfolio-adjusted basis in 2025, driven by higher prices and volumes in nearly all regions. Kaveri Seed Company Limited’s vegetable-seed revenue in India also increased 8.4% in FY2025-26 compared with FY2024-25.
Geography Analysis
North America Seed Market
North America held a 35.18% seed market share in 2026 and is the largest and fastest-growing geography, with a forecast CAGR of 6.05% during 2027-2032. U.S. growers planted biotech varieties on 92% of corn acres in 2026, down from 2025. Herbicide-resistant varieties also covered 95% of U.S. soybean acreage in 2026, down from the previous year. By November 10, 2025, Vegetables by Bayer had commercialized 5 tomato varieties through De Ruiter in Canada and the United States, including 3 tomato-on-vine and 2 beef varieties resistant to Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus. Their stated disease protection without compromised quality offers suppliers a route to differentiated vegetable seed sales alongside the established row-crop business, where wider biotech penetration has limited headroom.
Europe’s production base includes 1,987,503 hectares approved for EU field-crop seed production in 2025, excluding vegetables. France led that area, with Spanish straw cereals and Danish forage grasses illustrating crop specializations that help suppliers match multiplication requirements to established capabilities. In Asia-Pacific, China’s 2025/26 seed channels linked provincial or regional distributors with county wholesalers and local retailers, making agricultural-input shops farmers’ main contact point. China’s e-commerce and direct-to-farmer models were emerging alongside that network, so access to rural buyers involves both new routes and the local relationships supporting the dealer channel.
South America’s multiplication capacity is illustrated by Brazil, where 3.6 million hectares across 18 states were registered as soybean seed-production fields in the 2024/25 season.[3] That distributed footprint makes coordination across production locations a distinct commercial task for businesses serving soybean planting demand. In the Middle East and Africa, a 2026 Ghana study found that 51% of sampled vegetable farmers used agro-input dealers. Own-saved seed and local markets were also major sources, particularly in Ghana’s Bono, Eastern, Northern, and Western regions. Brazil’s registered multiplication network and Ghana’s mixed sourcing channels call for different supplier capabilities, with production coordination shaping the former and access through local outlets shaping the latter.
Regional Editions
All regions
Regulatory Framework and Outlook
The selected jurisdictions are compared from the perspective of commercial agricultural and vegetable planting-seed suppliers, including importers. Labeling, business licensing, variety entry, and import documentation shape the work needed to make seed commercially marketable. In the United Kingdom, covered seed businesses in England and Wales require an Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) license and certification of covered main varieties before marketing. Entry gates range from U.S. interstate labeling to Brazil’s seed-and-seedling operator and imported-cultivar registration, subject to exemptions, and China’s major-crop approval or cataloged non-major registration before promotion, so suppliers face different obligations by destination.
Regulatory Table of Seed Market
| Decision factor | United States | United Kingdom | China | Brazil | Saudi Arabia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary authority | USDA Agricultural Marketing Service | Animal and Plant Health Agency for England and Wales | National and local agricultural and rural affairs authorities | Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock | Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture |
| Key instruments or direction | Federal Seed Act and 7 CFR part 201 interstate labeling rules | England/Wales seed-business licensing and covered-main-variety certification | Seed Law and revised non-major-crop registration measures effective September 2025 | Law 10.711/2003 and Decree 10.586/2020 | Seed-import permit documentation requirements |
| Commercial effect | Interstate quality labels, including chemical treatment when present | License for covered seed operations and certification before marketing covered main varieties | Major-crop approval and cataloged non-major registration; DNA reports for registration crops with testing standards | Registration of most seed-and-seedling operators and imported cultivars, subject to statutory exemptions | Application reasons, commercial registration, invoice, specifications and quantity, analysis, origin, and agricultural health certificates |
| Current policy attractiveness | High | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
| Future direction of policy attractiveness | No change | No change | Hardening | No change | No change |
| Source: Mordor Intelligence | |||||
The United States receives High and No change ratings for its defined interstate labeling route, while Brazil’s Medium and No change ratings reflect continuing seed-and-seedling operator and commercial cultivar-import registry requirements. England and Wales receive Medium and No change ratings for established APHA licensing and covered-main-variety certification duties, while APHA guidance updated September 9, 2026 described further regulatory amendments and legislation needed for precision-bred seed and plant reproductive material to enter variety listing and marketing in England. China’s Low and Hardening judgments reflect variety-entry gates and the September 1, 2025 revision adding conditional DNA-fingerprint reports and registration procedures. Saudi Arabia’s Medium and No change assessments reflect continuing seed-import documentation work that links commercial records with analysis, origin, and agricultural health certificates.
Value Chain Stages
The comparison follows variety development, multiplication, processing, and distribution to show how integrated seed producers connect technical capabilities with commercial sales. KWS Group covers development through farmer consulting, while Sakata Seed India manages production, processing, storage, and distribution within its Indian seed operations. In KWS’s corn segment, which includes corn and sunflower seed, most net sales arise from January to June around Northern Hemisphere spring sowing. In its FY2025/26 report, KWS said reports of continuing Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions, following U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran that began on February 28, 2026, illustrated risks to international goods flows.
Value Chain Analysis Table of Seed Market
| Primary activity | Key participants | Value capture | Bottleneck | Resilience response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variety development | Integrated seed breeders such as KWS Group | Variety value embedded in commercial seed sales | Development must precede commercial release | Maintain overlapping variety-development pipelines |
| Seed multiplication | Integrated seed producers such as KWS Group and Sakata Seed India | Sales of multiplied planting seed | Protecting genetic purity across production steps | Apply separate checks to parent and hybrid seed production |
| Processing and packaging | Integrated seed processors such as KWS Group and Sakata Seed India | Finished-seed sales | Central-site dependence where processing is concentrated | Qualify backup processing capacity for seasonal lots |
| Distribution to growers | Seed marketers and distributors such as KWS Group and Sakata Seed India | Commercial seed sales to planting customers | Sowing-season sales peaks and ocean-freight exposure at KWS | Stage seasonal stocks and monitor supply-chain exposure |
| Source: Mordor Intelligence | ||||
KWS reported high logistics risk, including ocean-freight capacity bottlenecks and price increases, in FY2025/26. Its central purchasing organization monitors markets and supply-chain impacts, initiating risk-control measures as needed. For KWS’s seasonal corn and sunflower business, the commercial priority is delivery resilience that protects the planting window in which earlier breeding and processing work earns seed revenue.
Competitive Landscape
Market Concentration
Competition is moderately concentrated around multinational seed-and-trait businesses and crop breeders, with Bayer AG’s Crop Science business among the integrated suppliers. Vylor, Inc. represents the seed-and-genetics business separated from Corteva, Inc., while BASF SE reported a 4.4% decline in Seeds & Traits sales within its Agricultural Solutions segment in 2025. Syngenta Group’s seed business recorded USD 4.8 billion in sales in 2025, up 2% on a constant exchange rate basis. Groupe Limagrain Holding selects, produces, and markets field-crop and high-value vegetable seeds, adding a breeding model that spans broadacre farming and specialized horticultural buyers.
Corteva’s historical Seed segment generated USD 9.9 billion in net sales in 2025, up 4% from 2024. The increase combined 3% higher prices and 2% greater volume, partly offset by a 1% unfavorable currency effect. On October 1, 2026, Corteva completed the spin-off of its advanced seed and genetics business and continued as a crop protection company. That 2025 seed result is the historical base of the seed and genetics business now operating as Vylor, while Corteva competes as a crop protection company.
In Brazil, Syngenta reported gains in summer and safrinha corn market share in 2025, alongside launches of 2 corn hybrids and 6 soybean varieties. On September 24, 2025, USDA APHIS removed Bayer U.S.-Crop Science’s insect-protected MON 95379 corn from regulation under 7 CFR part 340. These moves distinguish portfolio competition from regulatory access, because adding varieties does not itself remove a trait-specific legal barrier. In the European Union, Regulation (EU) 2026/1388 entered into force on July 16, 2026, but its new genomic techniques rules apply from July 17, 2028. Existing GMO rules govern plants obtained through targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis in the interim, leaving developers of those plants exposed to the legacy compliance barrier.
Seed Industry Leaders
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Bayer AG
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Corteva, Inc.
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BASF SE
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Syngenta Group
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Groupe Limagrain Holding
- *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
Seed Market Companies Covered in this Report
- Bayer AG
- Corteva, Inc.
- Syngenta Group
- BASF SE
- Groupe Limagrain Holding
- KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA
- Sakata Seed Corporation
- Rijk Zwaan Zaadteelt en Zaadhandel B.V.
- Takii & Co., Ltd.
- Enza Zaden Beheer B.V.
- DLF Seeds A/S
- UPL Limited
- East-West Seed International B.V.
- Yuan Long Ping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd.
- Bejo Zaden B.V.
Recent Industry Developments in Seed Market
- Oct 2026: Corteva, Inc. completed the spin-off of its advanced seed and genetics business, identified as Vylor, Inc., on October 1, leaving Corteva focused on crop protection.
- Jul 2026: KWS Seeds opened 2 new greenhouses at its Kimberly, Idaho, research station in the United States to support sugarbeet seedling production, breeding innovation, and plant disease research.
- Jul 2026: Regulation (EU) 2026/1388 on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques entered into force in the European Union on July 16, 2026, with its rules applying from July 17, 2028.
Scope and Methodology
Segmentation Overview
By Breeding Technology
| Hybrids | Non-Transgenic Hybrids | |
| Transgenic Hybrids | Herbicide Tolerant Hybrids | |
| Insect Resistant Hybrids | ||
| Other Traits | ||
| Open Pollinated Varieties & Hybrid Derivatives | ||
By Cultivation Mechanism
| Open Field |
| Protected Cultivation |
By Crop Type
| Row Crops | Fiber Crops | Cotton |
| Other Fiber Crops | ||
| Forage Crops | Alfalfa | |
| Forage Corn | ||
| Forage Sorghum | ||
| Other Forage Crops | ||
| Grains & Cereals | Corn | |
| Rice | ||
| Sorghum | ||
| Wheat | ||
| Other Grains & Cereals | ||
| Oilseeds | Canola, Rapeseed & Mustard | |
| Soybean | ||
| Sunflower | ||
| Other Oilseeds | ||
| Pulses | ||
| Vegetables | Brassicas | Cabbage |
| Cauliflower & Broccoli | ||
| Other Brassicas | ||
| Cucurbits | Cucumber & Gherkin | |
| Pumpkin & Squash | ||
| Other Cucurbits | ||
| Roots & Bulbs | Garlic | |
| Onion | ||
| Potato | ||
| Other Roots & Bulbs | ||
| Solanaceae | Chilli | |
| Eggplant | ||
| Tomato | ||
| Other Solanaceae | ||
| Unclassified Vegetables | Asparagus | |
| Lettuce | ||
| Carrot | ||
| Okra | ||
| Peas | ||
| Spinach | ||
| Other Unclassified Vegetables | ||
By Geography
| North America | Canada |
| Mexico | |
| United States | |
| Rest of North America | |
| Europe | France |
| Germany | |
| Italy | |
| Netherlands | |
| Poland | |
| Romania | |
| Russia | |
| Spain | |
| Turkey | |
| Ukraine | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Rest of Europe | |
| Asia-Pacific | Australia |
| Bangladesh | |
| China | |
| India | |
| Indonesia | |
| Japan | |
| Myanmar | |
| Pakistan | |
| Philippines | |
| Thailand | |
| Vietnam | |
| Rest of Asia-Pacific | |
| South America | Argentina |
| Brazil | |
| Rest of South America | |
| Middle East and Africa | Iran |
| Saudi Arabia | |
| Egypt | |
| Ethiopia | |
| Ghana | |
| Kenya | |
| Nigeria | |
| South Africa | |
| Tanzania | |
| Rest of Middle East and Africa |
| By Breeding Technology | Hybrids | Non-Transgenic Hybrids | |
| Transgenic Hybrids | Herbicide Tolerant Hybrids | ||
| Insect Resistant Hybrids | |||
| Other Traits | |||
| Open Pollinated Varieties & Hybrid Derivatives | |||
| By Cultivation Mechanism | Open Field | ||
| Protected Cultivation | |||
| By Crop Type | Row Crops | Fiber Crops | Cotton |
| Other Fiber Crops | |||
| Forage Crops | Alfalfa | ||
| Forage Corn | |||
| Forage Sorghum | |||
| Other Forage Crops | |||
| Grains & Cereals | Corn | ||
| Rice | |||
| Sorghum | |||
| Wheat | |||
| Other Grains & Cereals | |||
| Oilseeds | Canola, Rapeseed & Mustard | ||
| Soybean | |||
| Sunflower | |||
| Other Oilseeds | |||
| Pulses | |||
| Vegetables | Brassicas | Cabbage | |
| Cauliflower & Broccoli | |||
| Other Brassicas | |||
| Cucurbits | Cucumber & Gherkin | ||
| Pumpkin & Squash | |||
| Other Cucurbits | |||
| Roots & Bulbs | Garlic | ||
| Onion | |||
| Potato | |||
| Other Roots & Bulbs | |||
| Solanaceae | Chilli | ||
| Eggplant | |||
| Tomato | |||
| Other Solanaceae | |||
| Unclassified Vegetables | Asparagus | ||
| Lettuce | |||
| Carrot | |||
| Okra | |||
| Peas | |||
| Spinach | |||
| Other Unclassified Vegetables | |||
| By Geography | North America | Canada | |
| Mexico | |||
| United States | |||
| Rest of North America | |||
| Europe | France | ||
| Germany | |||
| Italy | |||
| Netherlands | |||
| Poland | |||
| Romania | |||
| Russia | |||
| Spain | |||
| Turkey | |||
| Ukraine | |||
| United Kingdom | |||
| Rest of Europe | |||
| Asia-Pacific | Australia | ||
| Bangladesh | |||
| China | |||
| India | |||
| Indonesia | |||
| Japan | |||
| Myanmar | |||
| Pakistan | |||
| Philippines | |||
| Thailand | |||
| Vietnam | |||
| Rest of Asia-Pacific | |||
| South America | Argentina | ||
| Brazil | |||
| Rest of South America | |||
| Middle East and Africa | Iran | ||
| Saudi Arabia | |||
| Egypt | |||
| Ethiopia | |||
| Ghana | |||
| Kenya | |||
| Nigeria | |||
| South Africa | |||
| Tanzania | |||
| Rest of Middle East and Africa | |||
Market Definition
- Commercial Seed - For the purpose of this study, only commercial seeds have been included as part of the scope. Farm-saved Seeds, which are not commercially labeled are excluded from scope, even though a minor percentage of farm-saved seeds are exchanged commercially among farmers. The scope also excludes vegetatively reproduced crops and plant parts, which may be commercially sold in the market.
- Crop Acreage - While calculating the acreage under different crops, the Gross Cropped Area has been considered. Also known as Area Harvested, according to the Food & Agricultural Organization (FAO), this includes the total area cultivated under a particular crop across seasons.
- Seed Replacement Rate - Seed Replacement Rate is the percentage of area sown out of the total area of crop planted in the season by using certified/quality seeds other than the farm-saved seed.
- Protected Cultivation - The report defines protected cultivation as the process of growing crops in a controlled environment. This includes greenhouses, glasshouses, hydroponics, aeroponics, or any other cultivation system that protects the crop against any abiotic stress. However, cultivation in an open field using plastic mulch is excluded from this definition and is included under open field.
| Keyword | Definition |
|---|---|
| Row Crops | These are usually the field crops which include the different crop categories like grains & cereals, oilseeds, fiber crops like cotton, pulses, and forage crops. |
| Solanaceae | These are the family of flowering plants which includes tomato, chili, eggplants, and other crops. |
| Cucurbits | It represents a gourd family consisting of about 965 species in around 95 genera. The major crops considered for this study include Cucumber & Gherkin, Pumpkin and squash, and other crops. |
| Brassicas | It is a genus of plants in the cabbage and mustard family. It includes crops such as carrots, cabbage, cauliflower & broccoli. |
| Roots & Bulbs | The roots and bulbs segment includes onion, garlic, potato, and other crops. |
| Unclassified Vegetables | This segment in the report includes the crops which don’t belong to any of the above-mentioned categories. These include crops such as okra, asparagus, lettuce, peas, spinach, and others. |
| Hybrid Seed | It is the first generation of the seed produced by controlling cross-pollination and by combining two or more varieties, or species. |
| Transgenic Seed | It is a seed that is genetically modified to contain certain desirable input and/or output traits. |
| Non-Transgenic Seed | The seed produced through cross-pollination without any genetic modification. |
| Open-Pollinated Varieties & Hybrid Derivatives | Open-pollinated varieties produce seeds true to type as they cross-pollinate only with other plants of the same variety. |
| Other Solanaceae | The crops considered under other Solanaceae include bell peppers and other different peppers based on the locality of the respective countries. |
| Other Brassicaceae | The crops considered under other brassicas include radishes, turnips, Brussels sprouts, and kale. |
| Other Roots & Bulbs | The crops considered under other roots & bulbs include Sweet Potatoes and cassava. |
| Other Cucurbits | The crops considered under other cucurbits include gourds (bottle gourd, bitter gourd, ridge gourd, Snake gourd, and others). |
| Other Grains & Cereals | The crops considered under other grains & cereals include Barley, Buck Wheat, Canary Seed, Triticale, Oats, Millets, and Rye. |
| Other Fibre Crops | The crops considered under other fibers include Hemp, Jute, Agave fibers, Flax, Kenaf, Ramie, Abaca, Sisal, and Kapok. |
| Other Oilseeds | The crops considered under other oilseeds include Ground nut, Hempseed, Mustard seed, Castor seeds, safflower seeds, Sesame seeds, and Linseeds. |
| Other Forage Crops | The crops considered under other forages include Napier grass, Oat grass, White clover, Ryegrass, and Timothy. Other forage crops were considered based on the locality of the respective countries. |
| Pulses | Pigeon peas, Lentils, Broad and horse beans, Vetches, Chickpeas, Cowpeas, Lupins, and Bambara beans are the crops considered under pulses. |
| Other Unclassified Vegetables | The crops considered under other unclassified vegetables include Artichokes, Cassava Leaves, Leeks, Chicory, and String beans. |
Research Methodology
Mordor Intelligence follows a four-step methodology in all our reports.
- Step-1: IDENTIFY KEY VARIABLES: In order to build a robust forecasting methodology, the variables and factors identified in Step-1 are tested against available historical market numbers. Through an iterative process, the variables required for market forecast are set and the model is built on the basis of these variables.
- Step-2: Build a Market Model: Market-size estimations for the forecast years are in nominal terms. Inflation is not a part of the pricing, and the average selling price (ASP) is kept constant throughout the forecast period.
- Step-3: Validate and Finalize: In this important step, all market numbers, variables and analyst calls are validated through an extensive network of primary research experts from the market studied. The respondents are selected across levels and functions to generate a holistic picture of the market studied.
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