FEATURE
Fungicide market keeps
on spreading
High-value crops and innovative products will help to ensure
that the global fungicide market continues to outpace other
sectors of the pesticide market, says BASF’s Niels Poerksen
T
he momentum in the fungicide These developments have motivated innovation-
market over the past decade has been driven companies such as BASF to invest more
encouraging. Despite regional setbacks, in fungicide research and developmen
Rachel
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,
Carson
and
the market has grown steadily as Latin we expect continued growth over the coming
America and Asia adopt modern agricultural decade. A good part of this growth will be driven
practices and US growers discover the benefits of by the demand for strong products in high-value
fungicides in row crops. Although the European crop segments, as well as for seed treatment
market has been flat, there is still high demand formulations.
for new solutions that bring growers biological
benefits combined with ease of use and Over the past 10 years, the global fungicide
ecological advantages. market has grown to $7.2 billion (see Table
 November 2007  •  www.agrow.com
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