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The Global Fertilizers and Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry produces synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and other agricultural chemicals. Therefore, the industry plays an essential role in ensuring that the world's agricultural production systems are economically efficient in the short term and sustainable in the long term. Industry growth trends are led by three main drivers: feed, food, and biofuels.Leading up to the reporting period, fertilizer and agrochemical demand increased in both traditional and emerging markets, where food pressures have led to calls for higher agricultural productivity and crop yields. However, growing commodity prices, particularly during COVID-19, have supported revenue. In particular, fertilizer prices are expected to expand over the five years to 2023, positively affecting industry revenue. However, downstream consumers in some markets have increasingly scrutinized the use of some industry products, particularly pesticides, as they are considered potentially harmful to the environment. Ultimately, this is expected to result in expanding industry revenue, with revenue growing an annualized 0.5% to $396.0 billion over the five years to 2023. This forecast growth includes an expected decline of 7.0% in 2023 alone as the price of fertilizer and demand from agricultural markets are estimated to fall, after rising in 2021 and 2022. Moreover, profit is expected to fall during the period because of price volatility.Industry performance over the five years to 2028 is anticipated to hinge on demand growth from the United States, an expected increase in demand from emerging economies, and new industry operations in emerging markets, like Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. With crop prices and production forecast to fall globally, farmers are expected to demand fewer industry products. Overall, industry revenue is forecast to shrink an annualized 0.7% to $383.0 billion over the five years to 2028. Many high-profile mergers occurred over the past five years, like the acquisition of the Monsanto Company by Bayer AG and Syngenta AG by China National Chemical Corporation. The consolidation activity is expected to continue over the next five years as other large multinational corporations attempt to gain additional market share.
Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 0.5 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $396.0bn in 2023.
Market size is projected to decline over the next five years.
Company | Market Share (%)
2023 | Revenue ($m)
2023 | Profit ($m)
2023 | Profit Margin (%)
2023 |
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Bayer AG | 16,234.4 | N/A | N/A | |
Syngenta AG | 12,670.8 | N/A | N/A | |
Nutrien AG | 9,899.0 | N/A | N/A |
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Fertilizers, Pesticides and Other. Fertilizers is the largest segment of the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing.
Supply chain disruptions have lifted fertilizer prices
The Global Fertilizers and Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry formulates and prepares fertilizer products, pesticides (e.g. herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) and other agricultural chemicals (e.g. insect repellents, sheep dips, fly sprays and flea powders). Key markets serviced include the agricultural sector, households and various commercial and industrial users.
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The market size of the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry in Global is $396.0bn in 2024.
There are 4,675 businesses in the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry in Global, which has grown at a CAGR of 2.0 % between 2018 and 2023.
The market size of the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry in Global has been growing at a CAGR of 0.5 % between 2018 and 2023.
Over the next five years, the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry in Global is expected to decline.
The biggest companies operating in the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing market in Global are Bayer AG, Syngenta AG and Nutrien AG
Fertilizers and Pesticides are part of the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry.
The company holding the most market share in Global is Bayer AG.
The level of competition is high and increasing in the Global Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Manufacturing industry in Global.