Digital Farming Market - Historic Data (2019-2024), Global Trends 2025, Growth Forecasts 2037
Digital Farming Market in 2025 is estimated at USD 32.16 billion. The global market size was over USD 28.43 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 16.4%, surpassing USD 204.72 billion by 2037. North America is set to hold a leading industry position, led by the presence of major digital farming players, high R&D investment, and growing government initiatives.
The market growth is attributed to worldwide intensifying stances of crop failure and scarcity of natural resources. According to the data provided by the World Bank, the worldwide total natural resources rents ratio was 1.6% of GDP in 2020, whereas, the same was 2.5% of GDP in 2018.
Digital farming or digital agriculture is the use of IT in agriculture to enhance the cultivation process. It involves applications of connected machinery and other digital agriculture technologies. Digital farming is used to improve overall farm production, improve financial performance, and help farmers to boost their farm's productivity using advanced digital technology. Further, the involvement of digital technology in farming is an evolution in the agriculture sector and has positively impacted the efficiency and sustainability of farms.
Digital farming deals with the use of technology in the form of devices and sensors to help farmers to do precise farming. For instance, mechanical soil sensors analyze soil structure. The sensors employ a detector that penetrates the soil and measures resistive forces via load cells or strain gauges. On large tractors, a similar form of this innovation is used to forecast pulling prerequisites for ground-engaging equipment. Tensiometers are very useful for irrigation interventions as they detect the force used by the roots in water absorption.
Digital Farming Sector: Growth Drivers and Challenges
Growth Drivers
- Rapidly Escalating Hunger Rate Across the Globe - Significantly increasing population, and rising income ratio in developed countries are immensely pushing up worldwide demand for food, which is surging the hunger ratio on a larger scale. Therefore, farmers are in dire need of increasing yield production by adopting innovative methods such as digital farming. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in 2020, the global hunger rate affected between 720 to 811 million people.
- Spike in Intense Water Scarcity – For instance, approximately two-thirds of the world's population faces intense water scarcity within a month. Furthermore, by 2030, nearly 690 million people are expected to be relocated as a result of severe water scarcity.
- Upsurge in Smart Farming Through Technology Integration - The deployment of IoT devices in agricultural production surpassed around 78 million by the end of 2020, expanding at the rate of nearly 22% per year.
- Globally Increasing Food Demand – For instance, it is estimated that to feed the world's 9 billion people in 2050, the world’s total food production needs to boost by 72% between 2007 to 2050.
- Massively Increasing Worldwide Population – As per the World Bank, the world’s total population has touched the figure of 7.84 billion by 2021.
Challenges
- High Cost of Digital Farming Solutions - The price of producing cotton is already rising. In 2018, China's cotton production costs were 3.4 times higher compared to those in the US and 4.3 times higher than that of India. The cost of labor, something that accounts for 55.9% of the total cost of producing cotton and is increasing at an average annual growth rate of 7.9%, was the highest among these costs, followed by service fees and the price of agricultural inputs besides chemical fertilizer and pesticides, that together accounted for 31.2% of the total cost.
- Lack of Awareness Regarding Digital Farming
- High Primary Investment in Digital Farming
Digital Farming Market: Key Insights
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2024 |
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2025-2037 |
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CAGR |
16.4% |
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Base Year Market Size (2024) |
USD 28.43 billion |
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Forecast Year Market Size (2037) |
USD 204.72 billion |
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Digital Farming Segmentation
Application (Yield Monitoring & Mapping, Smart Crop Monitoring, Smart Irrigation Monitoring, Soil & Fertilizer Management, Livestock Monitoring, Green House Farming, Weather Forecasting)
The smart crop monitoring segment in the digital farming market is predicted to observe highest growth over the forecast period, attributed to surge in lack of natural resources, increasing ratio of crop failure, intensifying water shortage, and rise in soil degradation across the globe. According to a report by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, over 90% of Earth's soil is estimated to be degraded by 2050, up from the current 33% degradation rate.
Our in-depth analysis of the global digital farming market includes the following segments:
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Customize this ReportDigital Farming Industry - Regional Synopsis
The North America digital farming market is set to account for largest revenue share by the end of 2037, propelled by presence of some major players in digital farming, high investment in research and development of advanced agriculture techniques, significant deployment of technology and automation in agriculture, and increasing government initiatives to enhance the agriculture sector. As per the U.S Department of Agriculture, The USDA intends to invest up to USD 300 million in a new organic transition initiative to provide farmers with substantial support as they shift towards organic production. Furthermore, it is estimated that up to USD 75 million are estimated to invested to support urban agriculture. Apart from this, the USDA is going to invest USD 40 million in cooperative agreements with organizations to support accessibility and training for urban farmers.
Companies Dominating the Digital Farming Market
- Deere & Company
- Company Overview
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- Hexagon AB
- Epicor Software Corporation
- Trimble Inc.
- CropX Technologies Ltd.
- CNH Industrial N.V.
- AGCO Corporation
- IBM Corporation
- Kubota Corporation
- Syngenta Crop Protection AG
In the News
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Trimble Inc. introduced its next-generation displays- the Trimble GFX-1060 and GFX-1260 for in- field precision agriculture applications.
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Hexagon AB launched a new technology which is dedicated for improving accuracy in shovel planting. By using sensors that indicate the machine's position and orientation, as well as the angle at which its rods are inclining, the software indicates the position and displacement that need to be used to place seedlings or planting pits evenly inside the target.
Author Credits: Nilanjana Ray
- Report ID: 440
- Published Date: Apr 18, 2025
- Report Format: PDF, PPT
