Global precision farming/agriculture market is expected to grow $7.8 billion by 2022, with a CAGR of 14.9% from 2016 to 2022. Precision agriculture also known as site specific crop management (SSCM) and satellite farming is an advanced farming technique that utilizes several technologies such as GPS, GIS and remote sensing to collect crucial field related information, which is further analyzed to support grower's decisions with regard to crop fertilizing, planting, and harvesting. In addition, sensors are placed throughout the field that measure temperature, nutrition level and humidity of the soil. Therefore, the technology eliminates manual human efforts by automating crucial processes including real-time farm monitoring and information sharing.

Precision agriculture is swiftly gaining popularity among farmers due to the increasing need of optimum production with the given resources. Further, the changing weather patterns due to increasing global warming, have necessitated the adoption of advanced technologies to enhance the productivity and crop yield. By offering technologies such as real-time farm monitoring, weather forecasting, optimal field requirements and similar others, precision agriculture enables the farmers to increase the yield with minimum human efforts and wastage. Moreover, the technology enables the farmers to manage their resources as well as access real time information through their smartphones, thereby offering greater mobility and ease of operation. However, major restraints of the market are affordability of the technology and lack of awareness about the benefits of precision agriculture among farmers, particularly in the developing countries.

North America presently leads the market, on account of high investment in agriculture technologies, high awareness levels and wide internet penetration. Within North America, the U.S constitutes over 80% of the market revenue. Furthermore, Asia-Pacific is likely to exhibit the highest growth, on account of the increasing adoption of advanced agriculture technologies such as VRT and drone, mainly in countries such as China and Japan.

TOP FACTORS IMPACTING WORLD PRECISION AGRICULTURE MARKET

The top impacting factors of the world precision agriculture market are the growing adoption of smartphones, aggrandized use of cloud technology, booming population, technological advancement, lack of awareness, and high initial investment. Some of the factors such as lack of awareness about precision agriculture products and huge investment act as restraints for the market growth.

Growing Adoption of Smartphones

Smartphone adoption has been one of the most prominent factors in the proliferation of the precision agriculture technology. A smartphone acts as a bridge between the end user and advanced agriculture technology equipment. Integration of smartphones with agriculture equipment and field devices delivers easy access to agriculture mobile applications, which allows farmers to monitor their fields remotely. Therefore, it helps the farmers in keeping pace with the rapidly changing demands of the consumers.

Aggrandized use of cloud technology

Cloud is a centralized, virtualized, automated, and shared infrastructure. Cloud allows storage of crop-related information, which can be further accessed by growers using smartphones. Currently, integrated GPS is available in most of the new agriculture equipment; thus, weather conditions can also be sourced from various cloud-based applications and service providers. Therefore, inclusion of cloud technology in precision agriculture is one of the major drivers for the growth of the world precision agriculture market.

Booming population

The high population growth ratio is the major driving factor of the precision agriculture market, which encourages farmers to implement efficient and advanced agriculture techniques to improve crop yield. In addition, as per the recent survey report, around 80% of the world’s population is projected to live in urban areas by 2050, thereby fostering the demand for housing and food. Hence, farmers are increasingly adopting precision agriculture technique owing to its superior benefits, such as prime output in limited resources and improved crop quality.

KEY PLAYERS

Deere & Company

CropMetrics LLC

Trimble Navigation Limited

CropX

AgSmarts Inc

AgSense LLC

AGCO Corporation

Dickey-John Corporation

Monsanto Company

Ag Leader Technology

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