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Potash is produced worldwide in amounts exceeding 71.9 million tonnes (~45.4 million tonnes K 2 O equivalent [5]) per year as of 2021, with Canada being the largest producer, mostly for use in fertilizer. [6] Various kinds of fertilizer-potash constitute the single greatest industrial use of the element potassium in the world.
Agricultural use of inorganic fertilizers in 2021 was 195 million tonnes of nutrients, of which 56% was nitrogen. [20] Asia represented 53% of the world's total agricultural use of inorganic fertilizers in 2021, followed by the Americas (29%), Europe (12%), Africa (4%) and Oceania (2%). This ranking of the regions is the same for all nutrients.
The company was the world's largest potash producer and the third largest producer of nitrogen and phosphate, three primary crop nutrients used to produce fertilizer. At the end of 2011, the company controlled twenty percent of the world's potash production capacity, two percent of nitrogen production capacity and five percent of phosphate ...
Dead Sea Works is the world's fourth-largest producer and supplier of potash products. [6] The company also produces magnesium chloride, industrial salts, de-icers, bath salts, table salt, and raw materials for the cosmetic industry. [6] It has customers in over 60 countries. Dead Sea Works is part of the Fertilizers Division of Israel ...
Chernozem (/ ˈ tʃ ɜːr n ə z ɛ m / CHUR-nə-zem), [a] also called black soil, regur soil or black cotton soil, is a black-colored soil containing a high percentage of humus [3] (4% to 16%) and high percentages of phosphorus and ammonia compounds. [4]
The conventional wisdom, or at least the knee-jerk reaction, appears to be that investors should buy the fertilizer stocks and specifically the potash miners due to the conflict in Ukraine.
All the world's bromine production is derived from brine. The majority is recovered from Dead Sea brine at plants in Israel and Jordan, where bromine is a byproduct of potash recovery. Plants in the United States (see: Bromine production in the United States), China, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine, recover bromine from subsurface brines. In India ...
Nutrien needed to satisfy the Chinese and Indian regulators because of concerns it would corner the potash market. [9] [10] [11] The sale closed on 5 December 2018. [12] In February 2019, Nutrien, through its Australian subsidiary Landmark Operations [13] announced the proposed acquisition of Australian rural retail organization RuralCo. [14]