US market to rebound through 2011.The home and garden pesticide market is expected to rebound in the next several years, coming off a fairly sluggish period characterized by price declines.
Consumer concerns about lawn appearance, protecting food and ornamental garden plants, and household pest control remain strong forces behind demand for home and garden pesticides.
However, heightened consumer awareness about the potential dangers of pesticides has driven demand for biopesticides used in lieu of conventional pesticides.
Although conventional products remain dominant within the market, regulatory actions have led to the removal of some leading pesticide active ingredients, such as chlorpyrifos and diazinon, from the consumer segment of the pesticide market.
While such products have generally been replaced by the use of other conventional pesticides, the replacement products pose less threat to users, children and non-target organisms.Pesticide suppliers seek growth opportunities.In volume terms, the US pesticide market, including the consumer segment, is essentially mature.
However, the market is by no means stagnant.
Pesticide manufacturers have sought to sustain market growth by offering a wide variety of formats for essentially the same pesticide formulations, including readyto-use products in safe and easy to use packaging as well as concentrated versions more comparable to those sold in the agricultural segment.
Additionally,the number of biopesticide products available to the home and garden market has continued to grow.
These biopesticides include products based on Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which has become widely used in agriculture but is only beginning to establish a market presence in the home and garden segment; and natural pesticides and repellents based on such products as neem oil, garlic oil and putrescent egg solids.Active ingredient usage in the consumer segment averages about 100 million pounds per year.
Moreover, the number of new active ingredients to gain approval by the US EPA is fairly limited.Most new conventional active ingredients are for fairly specialized agricultural applications, while a large majority of conventional pesticide active ingredients used in home and garden applications are well established.
Products such as 2,4-D and glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides and a host of competitive products, have emerged in this decade since Monsanto’s patent for glyphosate expired.Study coverageDetails on these and other findings are available in the new Freedonia industry study, Home & Garden Pesticides, priced at $4500.
The study presents historical demand data for 1996, 2001 and 2006, as well as forecasts for 2011 and 2016 by pesticide type and application.
The study also considers market environment effects on demand, discusses regulatory issues, evaluates company market share and profiles 32 leading competitors in the US industry.