Market Trends of Africa Agricultural Irrigation Machinery Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Africa Agricultural Irrigation Machinery Market according to our research experts:
Increased Water Scarcity Concern
Machinery that is used in supplying water to agricultural land and crops in order to promote hydration and growth are categorized as agricultural irrigation machinery. The report presents a wide-ranging analysis of the market size of agricultural irrigation machinery. With water increasingly becoming a scarce commodity, farmers have been seeking novel ideas to grow more crops with the same quantity of water. Micro-irrigation systems, including sprinklers, and drippers, are witnessing high demand. This is expected to augment the growth of the market studied. Drought-prone areas, like Africa, adopted micro-irrigation systems, to achieve high crop productivity. Sprinkler and drip irrigation systems provide limited quantities of water to farms, with minimal wastage, as compared to conventional gravity flow irrigation.
Egypt Dominates the Market
The Agricultural Irrigation Machinery market in Egypt is estimated at a CAGR of 13.2% during the forecast period and the share of Egypt irrigation market in the Africa market was 33.87 % in the year 2018. The water shortage in Egypt is around 13.5 billion cubic meters per year and this is expected to increase. The increasing water shortage might decrease the productivity of agriculture in terms of quality and quantity. Owing to the above factors, the country has adopted new technological irrigation systems, such as the micro-irrigation system. On average more than 1,04,000 hectares of agriculture land in Egypt is irrigated through the micro-irrigation system every year.
