Overview of the Agricultural Inputs Sector in the EU

Justus Wesseler, Alessandro Bonanno, Dušan Drabik, Valentina C. Materia, Luca Malaguti, Marcel Meyer; Thomas J. Venus (Wageningen University, the netherlands)

This study analyzes the seed, feed, energy, fertilizer, and plant protection agents farm input sectors from two perspectives: the demand side and the supply side. Average input shares in the EU-27 for seeds and fertilizers declined while they increased for feeds. Market concentration is the largest in the plant protection agents sector followed by the energy sector, and lowest in the feed sector.

agricultural economics agricultural production economic concentration pesticides industry energy industry supply and demand plant health product market animal feedingstuffs production cost seedling fertiliser industry agriculture and rural development economics and monetary issues