Chemical fertilizer

Author: Parker
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: In this book, Murray Parker explains the importance of fertilizer trade, describes various business arrangements for managing this trade, and discusses regional protection mechanisms that victims of unfair trade can adopt. It also covers major producers, production costs, strengths and weaknesses of different regions, transportation, quality management, contracts, and port facilities. This book is an excellent read for understanding the global fertilizer trade. One of the reasons for the globalization trend of fertilizers is the geographical distribution of major natural resources, which is also the main reason for the large-scale decline of the fertilizer industry in Western Europe and Japan: building fertilizer processing plants in these regions was completely reasonable 30 years ago, but things have gradually changed over time. Food issues have also affected the fertilizer industry. China and India, for example, heavily invested in the fertilizer industry to ensure the secure supply of food. Other resource-scarce countries invested in fertilizer production to achieve industrialization, but as a result, they incurred losses in their national budgets.