Seed Treatment
Seed treatment is a process in agriculture, wherein application and use of physical, chemical and biological agents like fungicides, insecticides, natural biostimulants to disinfect soil and seeds from seed and soil borne diseases and infestation. Seed curing techniques helps provide plant protection and seed safety leading to healthy crops and better yields.
Benefits
- Protect seeds or seedlings from diseases and insect pests improving crop growth.
- Increased germination and ensures uniform plant growth from seed.
- Prevent seed rot and increase plant productivity.
- Prevents growth plant diseases
- Make provision for protection of seed from storage insects
- Controls soil insects.
Seed Curing Practices by Type
The practices are broadly divided into two segments:
- Chemical : It includes use of use of chemical agents like pesticide, insecticide and fungicides along with other micro-nutrients.
- Non-chemical : It includes derivatives from renewable sources and biostimulants with active ingredients.
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| Source : www.bayercropscience.us |
Huge Potential Market in Europe
European countries are thriving hard to step into the seed curing sector with advancement in seed protection techniques. The environmental sustainability has evovled as the major factor for the growth of this market.
The market revenue of industry for various European countries like France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden and more are shown below in figure below :
EUROPE SEED TREATMENT INDUSTRY,
BY COUNTRY, 2011 – 2018 ($MILLION)
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| Source : MarketsandMarkets Analysis |
Industry Trends and Forecast
The current industry trends are affected by factors like :
- Economical advantage over other seed protection methods
- Environmental sustainability and awareness towards using active ingredients and renewable sources.
- Innovation in seed safeguarding products
Key players include Syngenta (Switzerland), BASF (Germany), Bayer CropScience (Germany), and Nufarm (Australia.).
The European seed treatment market is expected to reach estimated worth $633.2 million at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 9.7%. Germany and France are recognized as market leader and will continue withhold their strong position in coming years.
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