Global Agricultural Adjuvants Market 2025–2034

Reports Description

As per the current market research conducted by the CMI Team, the global Agricultural Adjuvants Market is expected to record a CAGR of 4.78% from 2025 to 2034. In 2025, the market size is projected to reach a valuation of USD 4.3 Billion. By 2034, the valuation is anticipated to reach USD 6.2 Billion.

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Overview

Agricultural adjuvant is a compound added as a catalyst for the agrochemical formulation. They are used along with pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or fertilizers to improve their effectiveness. These additives enhance the principal agrochemical’s efficacy, stability, or application properties.

Adjuvants are crucial in modern agriculture because they optimize pesticide applications, reduce waste, and improve crop protection or growth outcomes. The agriculture adjuvants market is driven by factors such as increasing demand for food security, growth in agrochemical use, adoption of sustainable practices, advancement in adjuvant technology, regulatory support for enhanced crop protection and growing awareness among farmers.

However, the high cost of adjuvants and stringent regulatory framework might hinder the agricultural adjuvants market over the forecast period.

• Global food demand is projected to increase by 2.8 percent annually over the next 10 years, according to the latest International Food Security Assessment (IFSA) from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Growth Factors

Rising demand to reduce pesticide waste

Addressing the problem of pesticide waste was a major task in the 1950s and 1960s. Most pesticides were not designed to be used in conjunction with water. Today, however, the majority of pesticides are designed to be used with water.

The waxy surfaces of many fungi, plants, and pests make it difficult for water-based sprays to accomplish their goals effectively. In addressing this challenge, adjuvants are turning out to be an asset. An adjuvant is any material that is put into a spray tank to increase a pesticide’s effectiveness. Adjuvants include things like buffering agents, crop oils, stickers, spreaders, surfactants, and anti-foaming agents.

Adjuvants, known as surfactants, help and improve a fluid’s capacity to spread, emulsify, scatter, moisten, and display other surface-altering characteristics. Applying fungicides, insecticides, or herbicides without the suggested adjuvant has been found to reduce pesticide action by 30% to 50% and generate a substantial quantity of chemical waste. The most common and extensively used adjuvants for minimizing pesticide waste are thickeners that function as drift control agents in tank-mix application sprays, stickers, and spreaders.

Growing demand for green adjuvants

According to the environmental impact method, green adjuvants have negligible negative impacts on humans and the environment when used with crop protection agents. Green adjuvants increase the effectiveness and safety of crop protection chemicals for human use.

One important aspect driving the market for green adjuvants is people’s conscious decision to choose organic products. Due to the high personal income and consequent increase in affordability for urban dwellers, the product’s nutritional content is now emphasized. Growing public awareness of this has led to a surge in demand for organic food items. This directly impacts the increase in demand for green adjuvants in the agricultural adjuvant market.

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Recent Development

The agricultural adjuvants industry adopted several strategies, which include product launches, acquisitions, collaboration, expansion, and others. Some of the company strategies include:

• In September 2023, Croda launched the new product Atlox™ BS-50, a delivery system that specifically meets the needs of the growing biopesticide market. With the shift in agriculture towards more sustainable products, biopesticides derived from natural materials are being widely explored as a credible option. The challenge with using agricultural microbes, a class of biopesticides, is developing a suitable formulation system that provides the right environment for a microbe to survive but also maintains the performance requirements that a formulation has (such as no separation or sedimentation in storage).

• In September 2023, Stoller announced the launch of four new technologies to diversify its adjuvant solutions and increase the efficiency of agricultural input spraying in crops. According to the manufacturer, on average, 25% of total production cost is application-related, and new technologies can help overcome operational issues and even financial losses.

These collaboration strategies have expanded the company’s market presence in the agricultural adjuvants industry and given it a competitive edge.

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Challenge

Environmental concerns

Concerns over the effects of these herbicides on species that are not their intended targets are growing due to the overuse of adjuvants. Most spray adjuvants are spread throughout the entire agricultural field, not only the target plants. Regulations limit their use because each application (fungicides, insecticides, and herbicides) causes environmental issues when mixed with the adjuvant.

Each of the several treatments adds to air pollution since the spray adjuvants are blown into the surrounding areas by the winds after being applied to the crop. The ecology is endangered by the overuse of pesticides, which also impedes market expansion.

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Category-Wise Insights

By Product:

The activator adjuvants segment is expected to dominate the market. The improved performance of agrochemicals when combined with activator adjuvants, which increase penetration and absorption rates, is responsible for this expansion. As a result, illnesses, weeds, and insects can be controlled more successfully. Chemical products known as activator adjuvants are made to increase the effectiveness of crop protection chemicals.

Besides, the utility adjuvants segment growing at a rapid rate. The segment expansion is driven by the increasing application of pesticides to address various undesirable elements in agricultural areas.

By Application:

The herbicides segment is expected to dominate the market. The growth in this sector is primarily due to the widespread use of herbicides, such as glyphosate and glufosinate, in global crop production.

Besides, the insecticides segment growing at a rapid rate. The rising need for pesticides for various crops, including cotton, paddy (rice), fruits, and vegetables, is driving this expansion. They work well to stop early germination pest infestations on various crops.

Report Scope

Agricultural Adjuvants Market: Regional Analysis

North America is projected to dominate the agricultural adjuvants market. The increased demand for a range of agricultural goods in the US, Canada, and Mexico—such as cereals, fruits, vegetables, and oilseeds—is the main cause of this.

The demand for agricultural adjuvants is rising due to the region’s increased output of food crops and cereals and the extension of agricultural acreage. As the area looks to increase crop yields and fulfill the expanding food needs of its people, this tendency is probably here to stay.

However, the Asia Pacific is growing significantly in the global agricultural adjuvants industry. The growing agriculture sector is expected to drive regional industry expansion.

List of the prominent players in the Agricultural Adjuvants Market:

• Clariant AG
• Solvay SA
• The Dow Chemical Company
• Huntsman International LLC
• Evonik Industries AG
• Ingevity
• Nufarm Limited
• Corteva Agriscience
• Croda International PLC
• BASF SE
• Miller Chemical & Fertilizer LLC.
• Helena Chemical Company
• Winfield United
• Wilbur-Ellis Holdings Inc.
• Stepan Company
• Others

The Agricultural Adjuvants Market is segmented as follows:

By Product

• Activator Adjuvants
• Utility Adjuvants

By Application

• Herbicides
• Insecticides
• Fungicides
• Others

By Source

• Petroleum-based
• Bio-based

By Formulation

• Oil-based
• Others

By Crop Type

• Organic
• Conventional

Regional Coverage:

North America

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico
• Rest of North America

Europe

• Germany
• France
• U.K.
• Russia
• Italy
• Spain
• Netherlands
• Rest of Europe

Asia Pacific

• China
• Japan
• India
• New Zealand
• Australia
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Rest of Asia Pacific

The Middle East & Africa

• Saudi Arabia
• UAE
• Egypt
• Kuwait
• South Africa
• Rest of the Middle East & Africa

Latin America

• Brazil
• Argentina
• Rest of Latin America