The global ploughing and cultivating agrimachinery market was million US$ in 2014 and expected to reach million US$ by 2020 growing at a CAGR of during the forecasted period 2015-2020. Ploughing and cultivating machines are used for soil cultivation to improve the fertility, destroy insects and eggs, unwanted seeds and condition the soil. It homogenies and condition the upper 12-25 cm of soil and bring fresh nutrients.
The major application of ploughing machinery are in cultivating soils. While agricultural land mechanization started with US and European countries, importance of these regions is still there being mature markets. Asia pacific region is the fastest growing market due to strong economic growth and increasing focus on farm mechanization.
The major driver for the market are innovation in technology, increase in agriculture productivity as a result of growing population, government subsidies for farm mechanisation and reducing time for ploughing and labour requirement. The various new technological advancement in agrimachinery such as driver less spraying robot, GPS, Google earth which has driven the smart farming by reducing the production cost and minimizing power and source wastage. However the increase in soil erosion has reduced the use of ploughing by the application of shallower or other less invasive and penetrating tillage practices which has become a restrain for ploughing machinery market. The practice of natural ploughing with the help of microorganisms to aerate and cultivate the soil is also affecting the market growth. Low agriculture outcome in some areas due to grain inflation creates unwilling less for farmers to purchase machinery and high energy requirement are other factors restraining the market.
The market segmentation is done on the basis of product type, application type and by geography. The product type market is further segmented into plough, harrows, tiller, cultivator, and other soil cultivating machineries. Cultivators, harrows, hoes and ploughs are the major type of products used for cultivation which covers around 30% of the total offerings. Market segmentation according to application type involves soil loosening, cold size reduction, cold sorting, smoothening, compaction and consolidation. Soil conditioning and loosening application covers the largest market among others for ploughing and cultivating machinery application.
The market segmentation according to geography is divided into the North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America and Global. The extensive use of farming in North America, South America and Europe requires high usage of ploughing and cultivating machines which establishes a major market in the region.
Growth in precision farming in many developed and some developing region is creating a good opportunity for the market. The practice of vertical tillage which gives more uniformity, increases soil profile and yields and crop harvested become high resistant to drought and has strong root development in crops is boosting market with a new opportunity. The major player involve in the competition are Bush Hog Inc., Deere& Company, AGCO Corporation, CNH IndustrialN.V, Kubota Corp, Kuhn Group, Miedema Agriculture equipement among others. The major player focuses on new product innovation with low power consumption and efficient productivity with minimal production cost for users.