A sprayer is a device used to spray a liquid, where sprayers are commonly used for projection of water, weed killers, crop performance materials, pest maintenance chemicals, as well as manufacturing and production line ingredients. In agriculture, a sprayer is a piece of equipment that is used to apply herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers on agricultural crops. Sprayer is a machine used to apply liquid chemicals on plants to control pest and diseases. It can also be used to apply herbicides to control weeds and to spray micro-nutrients to enhance plant growth.
A significant proportion of farmers in the country have already started moving from using animate sources to mechanical equipments to power their farming activities. Mechanical equipments for various farm operations like tillage, sowing, irrigation, plant protection and threshing, etc., are generally being used by the farming community. The Agricultural Sprayers Market can be segmented on the basis of type, component, power source, and application. Based on type, the market is segmented into low pressure sprayers and high-pressure sprayer. Low pressure sprayer is further segmented into tractor mounted, high clearance sprayer, trailer-mounted sprayers and truck mounted sprayers. Fuel-based sprayer are dominating the global agriculture spray market due to its raising demand owing to its large capacity. Solar sprayer is considered to be the fastest growing segment due to increasing demand for environmentally friendly agriculture sprayer across the globe.
Few Indian major players are as under:
· Adarsh Plant Protect Ltd.
· Honda Siel Power Products Ltd.
· Lechler (India) Pvt. Ltd.
· Nordson India Pvt. Ltd.
· Rallis India Ltd.
· Speedcrafts Ltd.
· Spraytec (India) Ltd.