1. Agrochemical industry
trends
Common carder bee
on lavender
AGRANOVA

2. Global markets

3. Global crop sales of agrochemicals (2008 - 2016)
Source: Cropnosis Ltd

4. Agrochemical crop sales by country (2015)
Source: Cropnosis Ltd

5. Consolidating industry

6. Disappearing European and US discovery companies: 1960s -2017
2010
2000
1980
1960
European and US companies
no longer dominate global
innovation as once they did.
BASF
Bayer
Dow-DuPont
FMC
Syngenta
After slides prepared by Andresen and Sparks

7. Major company sales growth 1970-2000
ICI (Zeneca) and Monsanto grew steadily
BASF, Dow and Novartis stalled
Bayer sales decreased dramatically before Aventis acquisition

8. Sales of major companies in crop protection
Source: Agrochemicals - Executive Review (24th edition) 2013, published by Agranova
Makhteshim-Agan renamed Adama after its acquisition by ChemChina in 2014
Syngenta purchased by ChemChina in 2016
Du Pont and Dow Agrosciences merged in October 2017 (FMC acquired DuPont’s R&D operations)
Merger of Bayer CropScience and Monsanto underway.

9. Maturing range of active ingredients

10. Annual tally of new agrochemical launches
and development leads ( )
Since 2005, new leads have stabilised at around 40-60,
with new launches at 10 per year

11. Major inventing institutions (2012)
Japanese companies have overtaken US and Europeans
as the top source of innovative agrochemicals (the three
Chinese research institutes are currently only producing me-toos).

12. Major pesticide groups and their modes of action
Sources: Pesticide Resistance Action Committees (classification of MoAs)
Crop Protection Actives 2010 (sales data)

13. Major fungicide MoAs Restricted chemistries, many of which date from
before Situation is
similar for herbicides
and insecticides.
F-C3 QoIs (strobilurins)
F-G1 DMIs (triazoles)
F-B1 MBCs
F-C2 SDHIs
F-unknown MoAs
Sources: Pesticide Resistance Action Committees (classification of MoAs)
Crop Protection Actives 2017 (sales data)

14. Increasing challenges

15. (source: AgraQuest presentation)
Decreasing area of agricultural land as the world’s population increases, means productivity must improve
bi l l ions
(source: AgraQuest presentation)
Keeping up with the constantly evolving challenges
from agricultural pests is a vital part of this effort