Business 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 rising world inhabitants
The forty sixth version of EIMA Worldwide, one of many world’s premier exhibitions for agricultural equipment, tools and parts, is about to happen on 6-10 November in Bologna, Italy. Organised by FederUnacoma, the Italian Agricultural Equipment Producers Federation, this yr 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 yr’s version of EIMA Worldwide might 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’re going to exhibit over 60,000 fashions representing 14 product sectors, from machines, implements and parts, to digital programs, 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 might be specialised primarily based on key themes within the agricultural and gardening sectors. EIMA Componenti, the primary sector devoted to parts, will showcase a broad vary of elements, spares and equipment for agricultural equipment. The second sector, EIMA inexperienced, will specialize in equipment and tools for gardening and the upkeep of parks, outside areas and sports activities services. EIMA Power is filled with applied sciences utilizing renewable power sources. 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 offers an outdoor space for demonstration trials of latest technology equipment and programs. Targeting 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 stay) 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 may also 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 probably the most globalised occasions on the earth commerce honest 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 world 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 varieties of equipment and tools, and US$34 billion was allotted to sector parts. Worldwide information on commerce in tractors signifies a progress of 4.7% per yr 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 corresponding to Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey and plenty of others. “This progress is the rationale why a commerce honest 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’re going to 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 might be divided by product sector and organised partly throughout the 5 specialised sections – parts, power, inexperienced, hydrotech and digital. The themes that might be addressed in topic-specific conferences may have a world scope, delving into the worldwide disaster of water sources, 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 might be held. “EIMA’s technical contents and in addition 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 interest farmers, lovers of gardening and actions in a rural setting,” says Simona Rapastella, normal director of FederUnacoma.
EIMA Campus, organised in collaboration with the Italian Society of Agricultural Engineering, AIIA, may also have a distinguished place on the 2024 occasion. It’s aimed toward bringing collectively universities and analysis services to assist farmers within the improvement of services and products.
The occasion may also function the EIMA Desk which is an space devoted to coaching and security, offering help providers and session for businesspeople, demonstrations actions and a schedule of occasions on present points corresponding to public monetary tenders, revision, learners licenses and work alternatives for younger folks, in addition to info on bio-energy provide chains.
Since 1986, FederUnacoma has sponsored the Technical Innovation Competitors, and this yr isn’t any totally different. Open to all exhibitors, the competitors recognises producers with exceptionally modern merchandise for the agricultural and gardening sectors. “The Technical Innovation Competitors-Exhibition, which is among the robust factors of the Bologna occasion, showcases utterly new applied sciences designed and developed by firms and positioned into sequence manufacturing,” explains Rapastella. “This yr consists of 67 award-winning fashions that embrace the widest vary of merchandise, starting from tractors to working automobiles, and tools to utilized electronics.” The applied sciences receiving accolades might 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 business professionals, wherever they’re on the earth. “EIMA Worldwide is an occasion of monumental significance, from a promotional and business standpoint it’s the exhibition that producers world wide, from main world 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 when it comes to amount and high quality and on the identical time with the urgency of lowering using fertilizers and pesticides, drastically lowering water consumption, preserving biodiversity, in addition to considerably enhancing the standard of lifetime of rural communities. All that is solely doable by means 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 constructive pattern, with common annual will increase of 6.3% till 2027 for tractors and 5.9% for different varieties of machines. The EIMA occasion happening in Bologna will as soon as once more be the driving force of innovation – the aspect that pushes agriculture in direction of the longer term.”
This text first appeared within the October difficulty of iVT
