Global Agricultural Films Market Trends, Forecast Report 2025-2037
Agricultural Films Market size is anticipated to expand from USD 13.23 billion to USD 30.29 billion, reflecting a CAGR of around 6.8% throughout the forecast period, from 2025 to 2037. In the year 2025, the industry size of agricultural films is estimated at USD 13.94 billion.
The market growth is due to growing demand for food, driven by worldwide increasing population. As per The World Bank data, the world's population in 2018 was 7.6 billion and increased to 7.84 billion in 2021. Food is essential part of population life since it provides nutrition to them. However, producing more food is huge challenge for farmers. Hence they are seen adopting more sustainable method of agriculture in order to provide quality food.
The use of biodegradable films in agriculture, helps to increase crop yield and improve water use efficiency by retaining soil moisture and increasing soil temperature. Therefore, increasing use of biodegradable films and government regulations to use traditional plastic in crop products are major factors expected to rise the farm films market growth. Furthermore, significantly increasing demand to lower the soil erosion and compaction will fuel the market expansion.
Agricultural Films Sector: Growth Drivers and Challenges
Growth Drivers
- Rising Use of Greenhouse Films – With rapid urbanization, agricultural land scarcity was created. But the population is growing each year, and the sudden occurrence of the pandemic made the situation worse. All these are estimated to raise the demand for greenhouses owing to agricultural films market growth. For instance, greenhouse films are 100% eco-friendly, renewable, and have more than 4 years of durability.
- Increasing Use in Fruit and Vegetable Cultivation – Film farming methods are estimated to utilize less than 90% of water compared to conventional farming methods.
- Increasing Controlled Agriculture Owing to Lack of Agricultural Land – For instance, current operating indoor farms across the world reached 17 million square feet in 2021 and are estimated to reach 22 million square feet in 2022.
- Increasing Weeds in Crop – Mulch film with 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) effectively prevented the growth of broadleaf weed species with only 1% MCPA concentration with sustainable release.
- Increasing Nano Greenhouse for More Agricultural Productivity – For instance, nano greenhouses increase plant development by increasing natural warming and rises productivity by over 28%.
Challenges
- Pollution and Global Warming Risk - Plastic is progressively have been used in agricultural production. These films are used as silage and stretch films, as well as mulching films, to restrict weed development, raise soil temperatures, and reduce soil water evaporation, as well as topsoil and nutrient losses after heavy rain. These variables boost agricultural yields, extend the growing season, and lower the need for irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticide treatments. Plastic mulch films, on the other hand, have been discovered to be a major source of macro- and micro plastic pollution and global warming, and their extensive and long-term use, along with a lack of organized collection and management, leads to their accumulation in soils. Therefore, this factor is estimated to hinder the market growth over the forecast period.
- Disruption of Raw Materials During COVID
- Rise of Volatile Petrochemical Prices
Agricultural Films Market: Key Insights
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Base Year |
2024 |
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Forecast Year |
2025-2037 |
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CAGR |
6.8% |
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Base Year Market Size (2024) |
USD 13.23 billion |
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Forecast Year Market Size (2037) |
USD 30.29 billion |
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Regional Scope |
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Agricultural Films Segmentation
Polymer Type (LDPE, HDPE, LLDPE, EVA, EBA, Reclaims)
The LLDPE segment is set to account for largest market share by the end of 2037 on account of low production cost, high product performance, resist high temperature, and the barrier of moisture. Also, advancements in LLDPE to resist puncture increase the strength of the film. For instance, the puncture force of metallocene catalyst no treated and treated LLDPE are at a ratio of 90:10 and puncture energy of 15N and 289mJ rising by 35% and 16%.
Application (Geo-Membrane, Greenhouse, Mulch, Silage & Stretch Films)
The mulch segment is anticipated to garner majority revenue share by 2037. The segment growth is impelled by growing need for quality crops all across the globe. Mulch film, which is made to cover the soil, is frequently used for crops that are sown from saplings. The major goal of this light degradable mulch film is to safeguard crops by avoiding weed growth from impeding plant growth. Crops and soil are also shielded from potential bad weather by mulch plastic film. Also, there has been growing urge to reduce use of fertilizers in cultivation of crops. Excessive use of fertilizers is estimated to lead to nutrient loss, contamination of ground water & surface water, reduce useful microbes, and more.
Our in-depth analysis of the global agricultural films market includes the following segments:
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By Polymer Type |
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Customize this ReportAgricultural Films Industry - Regional Synopsis
The Asia Pacific agricultural films market is predicted to account for majority share by the end of 2037, on the back of increasing interest in greenhouse production or protected agriculture, in which the use of greenhouse film is significantly rising, along with the rising population in the region. Asia Pacific region covers half of the total 489,200 hectares of vegetable greenhouse production in the world. Also, there has been a growing demand for food in this region and it is high in India and China. For instance, with about 3 lbs. per person every day, China has the largest vegetable consumption worldwide. However, owing to the arable land the area for cultivation cannot be increased. As a result, managed agriculture is adopted to meet the region's expanding population's needs.
Companies Dominating the Agricultural Films Landscape
- Berry Global Inc.
- Company Overview
- Business Strategy
- Key Product Offerings
- Financial Performance
- Key Performance Indicators
- Risk Analysis
- Recent Development
- Regional Presence
- SWOT Analysis
- BASF SE
- The Dow Chemical Company
- Trioplast Industrier AB
- Ab Rani Plast Oy
- Britton Group Inc.
- Plastika Kritis S.A.
- Industrial Development Company sal
- Coveris Management GmbH
- RKW Group
In the News
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Berry Global Inc. associated with Cleanfarms and Poly-Ag Recycling to develop Canada’s circular economy. This recycling initiative was to recover used grain bags, and agricultural films and produce new content. The recycled farm films of Cleanfarms are reprocessed by Poly-Ag and used by Berry in the packaging of newly manufactured products.
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Coveris Management GmbH launched a new stretch film for wrapping silage bale. This new film comprises 30% of recycled content from used agricultural films which saved 20 liters of mineral oil per one roll production.
Author Credits: Rajrani Baghel
- Report ID: 2739
- Published Date: Jan 28, 2025
- Report Format: PDF, PPT
