Complete Growth Overview on Agrochemical Adjuvants Industry

Agricultural spray aids are used to improve the effectiveness of pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and other agents that control or eliminate undesirable pests. As with medicinal adjuvants, agricultural spray adjuvants are not themselves active in controlling or killing pests. Instead, these additives modify some properties of the spray solution, thereby improving the pesticide's ability to penetrate, target, or protect the target organism. Typical types of ingredients used include surfactants, emulsifiers, oils, and salts. Each of these ingredients and others modify the spray solution itself to improve properties such as spread, penetration, droplet size, or other properties.

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Some of the key players of Agrochemical Adjuvants Industry:

Evonik, Nufarm, Croda, Nouryon, BASF, Huntsman, Solvay, Clariant, Momentive, BRANDT.co, Dow, Helena Agri-Enterprises, Stepan Company, Wilbur-Ellis, Brandt, Ingevity

These additives can be included in a formulation with a pesticide or can be added to a tank separately. When they are included in the pesticide formulations themselves, they are known as in-can adjuvants. Agricultural spray aids can also be added separately during the preparation of the spray solution. In this case the adjuvant is referred to as a tank mix adjuvant. When supplied in a can, adjuvants can be very effective. However, due to limited space or compatibility in a pesticide formulation, not all of the necessary adjuvants may be included in the can. Therefore, the addition of tank mix aids may be required to optimize the pesticide's performance.

Agricultural spray adjuvants do not reduce the amount of pesticide needed below the recommended usage rate on a pesticide label. In fact, it is illegal in the US to use a pesticide outside of the label directions, although FIFRA, the US Pesticide Use Act, allows the use of pesticides at below the label rates as long as the label does Do not expressly refuse use. Agricultural spray aids are used to improve the performance of the legal amount of a pesticide that can be used. These adjuvants provide more consistent performance and, under certain conditions, can compensate for underperformance.