Agricultural films are mainly divided into two categories: greenhouse films and ground films. In addition, there are other types of agricultural covering materials such as shade nets, insect-proof nets and forage films. Greenhouse films refer to plastic agricultural films used to make plastic greenhouses and greenhouses. Ground films are ground covering films, usually transparent or black PE films, but also green and silver films, used for ground covering.

Under the influence of policies, markets, technologies, environmental protection and other aspects, the agricultural film industry is developing in the direction of environmental protection, functionalization, specialization, intelligence, scale and resource utilization.