Growth markets for new fertilisers
By James Sean Dickson
Published: Friday, 27 February 2015
As a raft of new sulphur deficiency-addressing fertilisers hit the international market, James Sean Dickson, Reporter, examines the reasons for their emergence, and the future of the specialist crop nutrient industry.
The US-based Mosaic Co., one of the world’s
largest fertiliser producers, estimated in its most recent
earnings presentation that global potash shipments hit an
all-time high of 61.1m tonnes in 2014, up 7.4m tonnes
year-on-year (y-o-y), while for fellow fertiliser mineral
phosphate, shipments reached 64.6m tonnes, rising 500,000
tonnes y-o-y....