Commodity International Trade and Industry Guide Series: Chemical Fertilizers

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, advantages and disadvantages of different regions, transportation, quality management, contracts, and port facilities. This book is an excellent read for understanding the world fertilizer trade. It introduces knowledge on fertilizers and the environment, the brief history of fertilizers, the fertilizer industry in the global economy, an overview of production processes, the structure of the fertilizer industry, nitrogen fertilizers, phosphate fertilizers, international trade, and future prospects.