Trade professionals world wide will assemble in Bologna, Italy for the 2024 version of EIMA Worldwide that includes the most recent improvements, market insights and traits within the agricultural sector, that can help in feeding a steadily growing international inhabitants
The forty sixth version of EIMA Worldwide, one of many world’s premier exhibitions for agricultural equipment, gear and elements, is about to happen on 6-10 November in Bologna, Italy. Organised by FederUnacoma, the Italian Agricultural Equipment Producers Federation, this 12 months guarantees to be a landmark occasion, constructing on the success of its earlier version in 2022 which noticed 327,100 guests and 1,500 exhibitors.
New improvements
Showcasing over the most recent agricultural equipment and technological options throughout the 355,000 sq. metre exhibition flooring, this 12 months’s version of EIMA Worldwide will likely be divided into 14 product sectors. “Greater than 1,700 producers are anticipated to come back to Bologna, 600 of that are overseas, and they’ll exhibit over 60,000 fashions representing 14 product sectors, from machines, implements and elements, to digital methods, and proper as much as extremely automated agricultural robots,” says Fabio Ricci, deputy director of FederUnacoma.
“Each nation in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania is confronted with the necessity to meet a rising demand for meals”
Of the 14 product sectors, 5 will likely be specialised primarily based on key themes within the agricultural and gardening sectors. EIMA Componenti, the primary sector devoted to elements, will showcase a broad vary of components, spares and equipment for agricultural equipment. The second sector, EIMA inexperienced, will specialize in equipment and gear for gardening and the upkeep of parks, outside areas and sports activities amenities. EIMA Power is filled with applied sciences utilizing renewable vitality assets. This part provides a large panorama of equipment and applied sciences for the financial administration of agro-energy provide chains in all manufacturing and environmental settings. Apart from the exhibition itself, the EIMA Power showcase additionally supplies an out of doors space for demonstration trials of latest technology equipment and methods. Focused on technological options for water administration, EIMA Idrotech focuses on want for water in agriculture and making superior applied sciences for water administration. Dedicated to probably the most superior digital applied sciences, the EIMA Digital exhibition space provides a broad overview of the IT and telematics purposes that more and more characterise trendy agriculture.
Within the outside part, the REAL (robotics and electronics for agriculture dwell) space will see demonstrations from probably the most superior drones and robotic applied sciences highlighting the rising significance of automation and digital options in trendy agriculture. This part will even be located alongside an area for the parade of finalists for Tractor of the Yr, the demonstration space of bioenergy provide chains created in collaboration with ITABIA, and the Backyard E-Movement space, devoted to machines for gardening and greenery care.
A global affair
EIMA Worldwide stands as one of the globalised occasions on the planet commerce truthful panorama with the 2024 version anticipated to welcome operators from 150 international locations, starting from the US, Thailand and Australia to Nigeria and the Bahamas. This numerous worldwide presence underscores the exhibition’s significance within the international agricultural sector. In 2023, the worldwide agricultural equipment market accounted for round US$164 billion – of which US$57 billion associated to agricultural tractors, US$73 billion associated to different forms of equipment and gear, and US$34 billion was allotted to sector elements. Worldwide information on commerce in tractors signifies a development of 4.7% per 12 months during the last 15 years however the demand for equipment is about to develop additional. The enterprise sector is traditionally concentrated within the 4 massive markets of India (over 900,000 tractors registered in 2023), China (380,000), the US (250,000) and Europe (158,000). Now the demand for equipment will develop in international locations akin to Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey and lots of others. “This development is the rationale why a commerce truthful occasion like EIMA is so essential, the rationale why the presence of overseas operators, nation by nation, guarantees to be more and more widespread and well-informed,” says Mariateresa Maschio, president of organisers FederUnacoma.
“Greater than 1,700 producers are anticipated to come back to Bologna, 600 of that are overseas, and they’ll exhibit over 60,000 fashions representing 14 product sectors”
Greater than only a showcase
Over 150 conferences, workshops and conferences will happen over the course of the four-day occasion addressing traits in trendy agriculture. Updates on applied sciences and insurance policies for agriculture and agro-mechanics will likely be divided by product sector and organised partly throughout the 5 specialised sections – elements, vitality, inexperienced, hydrotech and digital. The themes that will likely be addressed in topic-specific conferences may have a world scope, delving into the worldwide disaster of water assets, the cultivation of marginal territories and excessive areas of the planet, and the creation of the free commerce space on the African continent, for which a devoted discussion board will likely be held. “EIMA’s technical contents and likewise financial and political values make it an reference level for operators, farmers, contractors, agro-mechanical technicians, skilled and commerce organisations, in addition to for researchers, college students, public administrations, municipalities and the ranks of passion farmers, lovers of gardening and actions in a rural setting,” says Simona Rapastella, basic director of FederUnacoma.
EIMA Campus, organised in collaboration with the Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering, AIIA, will even have a distinguished place on the 2024 occasion. It’s aimed toward bringing collectively universities and analysis amenities to assist farmers within the improvement of services and products.
The occasion will even function the EIMA Desk which is an space devoted to coaching and security, offering help companies and session for businesspeople, demonstrations actions and a schedule of occasions on present points akin to public monetary tenders, revision, learners licenses and work alternatives for younger folks, in addition to data on bio-energy provide chains.
Since 1986, FederUnacoma has sponsored the Technical Innovation Competitors, and this 12 months isn’t any completely different. Open to all exhibitors, the competitors recognises producers with exceptionally progressive merchandise for the agricultural and gardening sectors. “The Technical Innovation Competitors-Exhibition, which is likely one of the robust factors of the Bologna occasion, showcases fully new applied sciences designed and developed by corporations and positioned into collection manufacturing,” explains Rapastella. “This 12 months consists of 67 award-winning fashions that embrace the widest vary of merchandise, starting from tractors to working automobiles, and gear to utilized electronics.” The applied sciences receiving accolades will likely be introduced throughout a ceremony on 3 October.
The way forward for agriculture
Because the agricultural sector continues to face an ever-changing market scenario, EIMA 2024 stands as an important occasion for trade professionals, wherever they’re on the planet. “EIMA Worldwide is an occasion of monumental significance, from a promotional and industrial viewpoint it’s the exhibition that producers world wide, from main international manufacturers to extremely specialised area of interest industries, select to current their vary and all the brand new merchandise,” says Maschio. “Each nation in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Oceania is confronted with the necessity to meet a rising demand for meals merchandise each by way of amount and high quality and on the identical time with the urgency of lowering the usage of fertilizers and pesticides, drastically lowering water consumption, preserving biodiversity, in addition to considerably bettering the standard of lifetime of rural communities. All that is solely potential by way of trendy agricultural mechanisation.
“The market will develop to satisfy a requirement that doesn’t cease. The export planning forecasts for the close to future affirm the optimistic pattern, with common annual will increase of 6.3% till 2027 for tractors and 5.9% for different forms of machines. The EIMA occasion happening in Bologna will as soon as once more be the driving force of innovation – the ingredient that pushes agriculture in direction of the longer term.”
This text first appeared within the October challenge of iVT
