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Home / Government / Agrochemical Industry In India
Agrochemical Industry In India
July 29, 2013
by Joydeep
Agrochemical or agrichemical is essentially agricultural chemical, a generic term for chemical based agricultural products. Majorly, agrochemicals refer to
a broad range of pesticides, including insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. It even includes synthetic fertilizers, hormones and other chemical growth
agents, and concentrated stores of animal manure. Agrochemicals are generally toxic in nature and bulk storage has to be very controlled or else accidental
spillage of such chemicals may cause environmental or health hazards.
India’s global rank is fourth as a supplier of agrochemicals in the global market, after USA, Japan and China thereby indicating the significance of
agrochemical industries in India. However, the consumption of agrochemicals in India is surprisingly low (0.58 kg/hectare) as compared to USA where the
consumption of agrochemicals is as high as 4.5 kg/hectare and Japan with an even higher consumption of 11 kg/hectare. Paddy (one of the chief crops of
India) has the maximum pesticide consumption of 28% followed by cotton (20%) of the total agrochemicals consumption. The ever increasing population
of India is proportionally shrinking the per capita availability of land which calls for a considerable improvement in the use of agrochemicals in our
country. With the domestic consumption increasing, employment of advanced technology and strategic moves by the agrochemical industries can actually
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country. With the domestic consumption increasing, employment of advanced technology and strategic moves by the agrochemical industries can actually
double the export capacity of the Indian Agricultural Industry in the next four years.
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The synthesis of agrochemicals in India involves a complex chain of manufacturers, formulators and
distributors. A current study show that, there are, 125 ‘technical grade manufacturers’ including 10
multinationals, 800 ‘formulators’ and over 145,000 ‘distributors’. About 60 technical grade
agrochemicals are manufactured indigenously. Formulators add ‘inert carriers’, ‘solvents’, ‘surface
active agents’, ‘deodorants’, etc. to the ‘high purity chemicals’ sold in bulk (usually 200250 kg drums)
by the technical grade manufacturers to synthesize the desired formulation. The desired formulations
are then packed and sold in retail to the farmers by the distributors. The low utilization of
agrochemicals in our country is mainly due to irregular demands during seasonal crops and dependence
of farmers on the monsoon season. Operational ‘working capitals’ are further hiked due to the long
credit given to the farmers. Low cost manufacturing of the agrochemicals and availability of low cost
labor actually enables India to export agrochemicals to US, some European and African countries.
Some of the key factors driving the agrochemicals market in India are listed below:
• With 16% of the world population concentrated in India and only a landmass of less than 2%
necessitates achieving self sufficiency in production of food grains to meet the ever increasing demand for food grains, an important driving factor for the
agrochemicals market.
• With the export graph shooting up and limited farmland availability, India has, “190 million hectares of gross cultivated area and the scope of bringing
new areas under cultivation are severely limited. Available arable land per capita is reducing globally and is expected to reduce further. The pressure is
therefore to increase the yield per hectare which can be achieved through increased use of agrochemicals.” 50% of the total industry size in 2009 was
attributed to Indian agrochemical exports.
• India witnessed a 50% hike in the fields of floriculture and horticulture in the past three years which had prompted the Indian Government to launch a
‘national horticulture mission’ expecting to double productions by 2012. This boom in the floriculture and horticulture industry will create a demand for
agrochemicals especially fungicides.
• Nonuse of pesticides results in a loss of USD 17 billion worth of crops every year as per a Government survey. So both the Government and the
companies are keen to stop this irrational loss and are educating farmers on the proper methodology and appropriate chemicals to be used in countering
pest problems. Increasing awareness amongst the farmers is likely to boost a demand for agrochemicals.
Some of the challenges currently faced by the Indian agrochemical industries are cited below:
• R&D in the field of agrochemicals is expensive and time consuming as evident from the fact that the creation of a new agrochemical molecule takes
about nine years and an investment and USD 180 million. Indian companies have so far neglected this concept of creating new agrochemical molecules.
Developing such R&D capacities and remaining cost effective at the same time will prove to be a tough challenge.
• The business of agrochemicals is threatened by the ‘genetically modified (GM) seeds’ which ‘possess self immunity towards external adversaries’.
• Widespread and huge number of consumers necessitates a proper network to ensure the availability of the desired product. Companies have adopted the
new policy of eliminating the distributors from the network and dealing directly with the retailers thereby creating a cost effective distribution system.
Though retailers have to be educated in this process on product usage, the companies are able to offer a competitive price to the farmers.
• Promotion of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), India Government and various NGOs of zero budget farming and biopesticides has started to create
awareness amongst the farmers to reduce chemical usage. Increase in the demand of organic food has initiated farmers in Karnataka to adapt to organic
farming. Agrochemical companies need to combat the environmental issues and negative impact of pesticides successfully to avoid any disrepute to
agrochemical usage.
• Like all strata of our society corruption has permeated the agriculture sector too. The agrochemicals market is flooded with spurious pesticides, the
estimated market of which was USD 233 million in 2009. This has affected sizable revenue of the legal agrochemicals market.
The Indian agrochemicals market grew at a rate of 11% , that is, from USD 1.22 billion in financial year 2008 to an estimated USD 1.36 billion in financial
year 2009. Agrochemicals exports contributed to 50% of the total industry turnover in financhial year 2008 and have achieved a Compound Annual
Growth Rate (CAGR) of 29% from 2004 t0 2008.
However, the most comprehensive study on the agrochemical industry of India has been provided by the apex industry body ASSOCHAM, ‘Indian Market
For Agrochemicals’ which predicts, “Growing at a CAGR of about 15%, the agrochemicals sector in India is likely to cross Rs 25,000 crore mark by 2015.
The Indian agrochemicals market is currently (201213) poised at Rs 16,000 crore”. But the agrochemicals market in India is still very fragmented.
However, the huge potential of foreign investment in the Indian agrochemical market is undeniable. The companies in this sector should increase their
investment in the field of research and development of agrochemicals which in turn will spur the exports increasing competitiveness in the global scenario.
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Vinod K. Dubey May 30, 2015 at 9:27 pm
Very useful information. Please provide the same for 201415
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surinder mattoo April 16, 2015 at 7:47 am
We want same report should be updated for 201415 . Agrochemical trends as per changing Scenario.
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surinder mattoo April 16, 2015 at 7:45 am
We want same report should be updated for 201415 . Agrochemical trends as per changing trends.
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surinder mattoo April 16, 2015 at 7:42 am
Good report . Thank you .
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ali June 11, 2014 at 1:05 pm
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good report……thnk u…
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Gajanan sahebrao Jadhav June 1, 2014 at 1:39 pm
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