Swine Feed Additives Market: An Overview of Growth Factors and Future Prospects by 2018.

Feed Additives

Feed Additives are substances, micro-organisms or preparations, other than feed material and premixtures, which are intentionally added to feed or water in order to provide the supplementary nutrients for the meal that is used for animals.

Vitamins (A, B, C, D, E, K…), amino acids (methionine, lysine…), preservatives (citric acid…), essential fatty acids (omega-3 and omega 6), emulsifiers (agar, guar gum) and essential micro minerals (iron, manganese, zinc…) are some examples of feed additives.

Types of Feed Additives

1) Sensory Additive: It is the additive which stimulates the appetite, improving the voluntary intake of a diet. Examples include feed flavors or

sweeteners.
2) Nutritional Additive: these types of additives provides specific nutrients to an animal for the purpose of optimal growth. Vitamins and amino acids fall into this category.

3) Zootechnical Additive: improves the nutritional value of a diet. It doesn't give nutrients directly to the animal, but through its diet. This category includes, among others, enzymes and certain photogenic.

Swine Feed Additives Market

Swine Feed Additives Market Share (KT), By Geography, 2012

The global swine feed market was dominated by Asia-Pacific in 2012. It was followed by Europe. The Asia-Pacific swine feed additives market topped the consumption chart of the global industry, accounting for around 43.1% of the total share. And as far as the swine feed additives industry is concerned Europe was the dominant player with 37.3% of the total market share. 

The global market value for these products is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.1% and 5.5% respectively by 2018, with the highest growth projected to be observed in the Asia-Pacific region for both the markets.

The global swine feed additives market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.1% to attain a consumption volume of 14,318.9 KT by 2018.

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Crop Protection Chemicals: Market Trends and Forecasts to 2018.

What is a Crop Protection?

It is the Branch of horticulture which is concerned with protecting crops from pests, insects, weeds, and diseases. Use of “crop protecting” agents improves yield and quality of agricultural products, consumer preferences Prevents the spread of diseases to crops and livestock (Pierce’s Disease).

Cause of Crop Infection:

1) PESTS: Field crops are infected with a variety of pests. A pest is any destructive organism which causes great harm to crops by destroying crop plants or products obtained from them. These include weeds, insects, mites, rodents, fungi, bacteria etc… If these pests are not controlled at appropriate time then they can damage the crops to the extent of 50 to 70%.

Crop Protection chemicals

Crop Protection chemicals include all pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, as well as biotechnology products. These Crop Protection Chemicals helps to control the thousands of weed species, harmful insects and numerous plant diseases that afflict crops.

1) Pesticides:
2) Herbicides: Herbicides are commonly known as weed killer. Herbicides are widely used in 

 agriculture and landscape turf management.

3) Insecticides
4) Fungicides

Advantages of using Crop Protection Chemicals:

1) Increase food production
2) Decrease the cost of food: With the increase of the crop yield the cost of the food will also be decreased.
3) high-quality produce that is free of insect blemishes and insect contamination.