Trees in farming systems also work well in combination with chemical fertilisers, as they replenish soil organic matter, which makes fertilisers more efficient.
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NDRC also instructed local governments and companies to tell farmers to cut use of chemical fertilisers and turn to organic fertilisers, according to the statement.
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The company produces compound fertilisers, made from combining fertilizer materials like ammonia, urea and potassium salts, as well as water-soluble and slow-release fertilisers.
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Beijing is targeting zero growth of chemical fertilisers and pesticides by 2020.
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It could make farmers more productive by identifying where fertilisers are needed.
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During the soil surveys, farmers are introduced to new fertilisers to test.
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Euronext's UAN contract will be the first physically delivered nitrogen fertilisers futures contract.
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Meeting his loyalists from the pro-Kremlin public movement, The All-Russia People's Front, Putin heard compalints from a farmer saying that massive exports of mineral fertilisers meant Russia's agricultural producers were forced to buy pricey fertilisers for hard currency.
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Imports of fertilisers will not rise despite good demand as we have ample inventory.
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Besides oil, it reports and provides pricing on commodities including coal, gas and fertilisers.
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Alongside lower costs for fertilisers and labor, they have more money in their hands.
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Export volumes of ceramics, shoes, jewelry, bags, fertilisers, even Chinese medicine are all down.
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The most common reason cited is the inability to repay loans for seeds and fertilisers.
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Drinking wells are increasingly contaminated with nitrates from cheap fertilisers, which have spread alongside pumps.
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"The contract reflects the interests of producers, importers and consumers of potash fertilisers," she added.
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"Global food security goals cannot be achieved without the significant use of fertilisers," he said.
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Cocobod also has control over the distribution of fertilisers and disease-controlling chemicals to farmers.
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Russia supplies 1.5-1.8 million tonnes of fertilisers, mainly potash-based, to India a year.
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Other products such as skimmed milk, rapeseed oil, nitrogen fertilisers or wood pellets are untraded.
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However, low fertiliser production and the high cost of importing fertilisers has limited seed production.
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The South Asian nation also imports fertilisers, precious metal, coal and steel among other goods.
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Now the soil needs to be coaxed into life with chemical fertilisers they cannot afford.
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Run-off from fertilisers and untreated sewage are other nasty problems with which corals must contend.
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In their absence, vineyards would need natural fertilisers and to be weeded by hand, both costly.
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Sustainable cocoa production requires environmentally-friendly farming techniques that limit the use of fertilisers and pesticides.
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A spokesman for the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers declined to comment on the proposed changes.
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I decided I wouldn't use any chemicals, fertilisers, pesticides, or products that would harm the environment.
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Companies that sell everything from tractors to fertilisers to consumer goods to farmers would be vulnerable.
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In developed countries in particular, fertilisers are tailored to the needs of the soil, he noted.
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Nitrous oxide emissions are associated with excessive use of fertilisers and burning plant and animal waste.
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Chondol said the women's group is also now campaigning to end the use of chemical fertilisers.
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Today most farmers rely on synthetic fertilisers to do the nitrogen-enhancing job once reserved for dung.
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It withstands compression twice as well as concrete, and needs next to no watering, pesticides or fertilisers.
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"This will make the kingdom the second largest producer of phosphate fertilisers in the world," Falih added.
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The government has announced loan write-offs, introduced crop insurance schemes and subsidized inputs such as fertilisers.
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The sector has annual sales of more than $100 billion, while fertilisers are worth around $175 billion.
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Indian farmers seldom own the land they cultivate, and often take loans to buy seeds and fertilisers.
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The plant would produce methanol and nitrogen fertilisers, using gas from fields in Sakhalin island, VEB said.
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Its monoammonium phosphate fertilisers are on average $100 a tonne more expensive than Chinese equivalents, Gurary said.
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It is one of several deals that are remaking the international market for agricultural chemicals, seeds and fertilisers.
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CME Group has launched several fertilisers contracts but these are cash settled and do not include western Europe.
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"North Korea doesn't have fertilisers or pesticides so their food is very natural and organic," the guide said.
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The nitrogen-based explosives and fertilisers which fossil fuels made cheap and plentiful transformed mining, warfare and farming.
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A gas supply crunch this winter has tightened supplies of urea and other gas-based fertilisers and boosted prices.
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Seaweed is used in foods such as soup, sushi wraps and spaghetti, as fertilisers and as feed for animals.
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OCP stopped shipments to Kenya last summer and asked authorities for a re-testing of its fertilisers, he said.
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The government is providing training on raising fish and using the waste water on plants instead of chemical fertilisers.
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It has already vowed to maintain current rates of grain output while controlling its use of pesticides and fertilisers.
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The plan is part of Beijing's effort to limit chemical fertilisers and pesticides, which have contaminated soil and water.
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Meanwhile, the deeper the wells go, the greater their contamination from chemical fertilisers and manure as well as industrial waste.
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Such artificial rainmaking is akin to giving clouds vitamins, or farmers applying fertilisers to boost their crop yields, he explained.
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ZCh Police said African Investment Group's (AFRIG) business in 2015 was mainly focused on supplying phosphorite, used to make fertilisers.
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These shortfalls in quality imply that many of the fertilisers and seeds sold in the market are simply not profitable.
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CARDI also highlights a lack of investment from farmers in new trees and fertilisers as other reasons for poor yields.
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The company said it also planned to convert all waste in its farms to organic fertilisers to meet market demand.
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Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corp rose as much as 7.29 percent, while Coromandel International Ltd climbed up to 5.21 percent.
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The acquisition will allow Anglo expand into fertilisers, nearly four years after it sold its last fertiliser project in Brazil.
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Farmers have found themselves stranded, often far from banking facilities, with old money that they cannot spend on seeds and fertilisers.
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Since the 1960s, they have focused on higher yields, using fertilisers, chemicals and new irrigation methods, said Britain's Millennium Seed Bank.
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Similarly, it got out of fertilisers, caffeine and standard plastics because they all became too commoditised, making it hard to compete.
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The Rotem factory manufactures phosphate-based products, leading to downstream derivatives such as phosphoric acids, fertilisers, specialty chemicals and phosphate salts.
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Normally farmers apply fertilisers, various chemical treatments and pesticides in the months leading up to the October start of the main crop.
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The tractors and fertilisers that brought the world cheaper food, and the plastics used for wrapping, are the progeny of petroleum products.
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Kingfarm will upgrade 10 conventional fertiliser plants located near its planned service centres to produce more specialty fertilisers, the IFC also said.
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SO-CALLED ORGANIC crops, grown without recourse to synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, are credited with miraculous properties by many of their fans.
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It imposes controls on farms which grow medicinal herbs (banning certain fertilisers, for instance) and on medical manufacturers which produce TCM pills.
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But since India's Green Revolution began in the 22016s, farmers came to rely on chemical fertilisers and pesticides to boost rice yields.
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Farmers have complained that the move made it hard for them to buy seeds and fertilisers, disrupting the planting of winter crops.
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The company said this would spur it to expand in premium fertilisers and industrial applications, where it said margins are more stable.
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To hedge, farmers have scrapped purchases of fertilisers and pesticides to minimise expenditure, and Nufarm said it cut production as a result.
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So it has started a food-processing company to buy and cook beans, and also firms that sell seeds, fertilisers and tools.
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A Finnish laboratory test failed to identify the poison but found traces of organophosphates, which are used in fertilisers, in his urine.
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The Melbourne-based company said the strategic review of its fertilisers business would assess options including a potential sale, demerger or retention.
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The NDRC also asked railway bureaus to prioritize the transport of fertilisers and raw materials during preparations for spring planting, the statement showed.
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He used his six-month loan to pay for fertilisers and hire more labor, as advised by the agents who visited his village.
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Revenue in the agriculture division remained relatively flat at 8.2 billion rand, with record sales volumes for speciality fertilisers both locally and internationally.
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Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF), IFFCO and Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals, and Tata Chemicals are among the key potash buyers in India.
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The group, which controls 75 percent of the world's phosphate reserves, has a 65 percent market share of phosphates-based fertilisers in Africa.
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The action has also been spread across a wide range of industries, from cosmetics to construction equipment and from film-making to fertilisers.
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These include reducing the overuse of nitrogen fertilizer — a risk to drinking water quality and the environment — and cutting down on other fertilisers.
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Since 2016, Phosagro, one of the world's largest producers of phosphate-based fertilisers, has supplied about 1.2 million tonnes of product to India.
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The method could increase yields while also offering a more environmentally-friendly alternative, including by replacing chemical fertilisers with organic ones, he said.
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According to Mr Fagioli, each tree will need 30 litres of water a day, pesticides to deter insects and fertilisers to boost yields.
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This could suggest a discrepancy in the types of petrochemical products that were banned, such as methanol and fertilisers, the industry sources said.
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A slowdown in the manufacturing and mining sectors and drought conditions have weighed on Omnia, which produces chemicals and industrial products, fertilisers and explosives.
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China consumes around a third of global fertilisers, with rapid growth in use in recent years driven largely by higher fruit and vegetable production.
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In the report, VTB Capital said Rustranscom was the fourth largest Russian rail operator and the largest in grain, mineral fertilisers and timber shipments.
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Knowing very little about tree seedlings, Njoroge joined a WhatsApp group of 30 fellow farmers to learn about issues like growing conditions and fertilisers.
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It does not publish figures on individual businesses but says it is one of the largest distributors of fertilisers and inputs in West Africa.
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The blast happened at the ammonia production facility of the Farg'onaazot company which produces fertilisers and other chemicals, the ministry said in a statement.
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Exports of phosphates and byproducts including fertilisers climbed in the first five months this year by 7.8% to a value of 20.8 billion dirhams.
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The stern veteran of the EPRDF's bush war, who died in 2012, is said to have remarked once that Ethiopia needs fertilisers, not stadiums.
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India, the world's second largest consumer of crop nutrients after China, fulfils nearly 90 percent of its demand for phosphate-based fertilisers from imports.
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The biggest gains would come from clean cooking, reducing emissions from industry, using renewable fuels for power generation and more efficient use of fertilisers.
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At the time the photograph was taken, a farming transformation was under way—a "green revolution" marrying new seed varieties with artificial fertilisers and pesticides.
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"For example, tech-savvy youth are very good at using mobile apps that tell them when to plant or what fertilisers to use," he said.
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This year many could not afford to apply fertilisers and various chemical treatments in the months leading up to the start of the main crop.
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The process by which this vital element cycles through the air, the soil and living organisms has been turbocharged by human use of artificial fertilisers.
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Conditions include reserving a fifth of the land for planting trees, and reducing their use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, said environment minister Surasak Karnjanarat.
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It added that it had asked the governments of both countries to discuss the potential cancellation of India's 5 percent import duty on Russian fertilisers.
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DEAD ZONES: Pollution from fertilisers has led to the formation of 400 low oxygen 'dead zones' in coastal waters covering more than 245,000 square kilometers.
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"As refugees, we are poor people and can't afford expensive things like fertilisers and hybrid seeds," said Taleb Brahim, one of the brains behind the project.
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Without land, women have no collateral to access financial services, restricting their ability to invest in fertilisers, seeds and other innovations to increase yields and incomes.
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Indian Potash Ltd, IFFCO, Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals Corp, Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd, Coromandel International Ltd are some of the top potash players in India.
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The new agreement "will increase the volume and expand the range of phosphorus-based fertilisers supplied to India," Phosagro CEO Andrey Guryev said in the statement.
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Farmers in the region used to grow their crops using chemical fertilisers that were expensive and left behind chemical residue, Mureithi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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It has enough stocks of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to last for three to four months, Mansukh Mandaviya, junior minister for chemical and fertilisers, told reporters.
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A slowdown in the manufacturing and mining sectors and drought conditions have weighed on Omnia's business, which produces various chemicals and industrial products, fertilisers and explosives.
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The farmland may be lush and fertile here, but it is also awash with pesticides and fertilisers that can leach into the (usually unfiltered) water supply.
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Unlike domestic crops, which receive dedicated care in the form of fertilisers and pesticides, their wild relatives are able to adapt to changing conditions, according to scientists.
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But Guryev said Chinese exports of phosphate and nitrogen fertilisers have already fallen by 30 percent since 2015 as some enterprises could not cope with low prices.
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This encourages monoculture farming (the cultivation of a single crop), which many argue erodes soil nutrients, is damaging to wildlife and requires chemical fertilisers to be sustainable.
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THIRUTHURAIPOONDI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Nel Jayaraman, the realization that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilisers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly.
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To help combat this, EthioSIS proposed the soil survey to the government, to enable fertilisers to be matched with local soil conditions and crop requirements, he said.
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Petrochemicals that are derived from oil and gas feedstocks form the building blocks for products that range from plastic bottles and beauty products to fertilisers and explosives.
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China is the world's top fertiliser consumer, and the move comes as Beijing tries to cap the growth in traditional fertilisers and pesticides that have caused severe pollution.
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In 2018, RTC was the market leader in rail transportation of grain in Russia and Kazakhstan and of timber and mineral fertilisers in Russia, according to the company.
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During low output months when seasonal monsoon rains are at their heaviest, their income can plummet, forcing them to cut down on labor costs or spending on fertilisers.
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Rice has also historically been a sensitive item, along with cement and fertilisers, due to concerns that Pyongyang may divert any outside handouts to bankroll its weapons programs.
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In Ethiopia, the Moroccan firm expects its chemical plant to be operational by 2023 or 2024, with an initial capacity of 2.5 million tonnes of fertilisers, he said.
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"We are cutting use of fertilisers, for example," said José Fernandes, who farms 400 hectares, or nearly 1,000 acres, of soy in Brazil's key Mato Grosso production region.
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About 65 percent of the farmers questioned by the group said the productivity of their land had declined even though they use more fertilisers than five years ago.
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"Drought-resistant and improved seeds, fertilisers, spraying machines and other assistance meant for farmers cannot be distributed because of permanent lockdown in most of the towns," he said.
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Prior to the land reforms introduced by Mugabe, farmers had borrowed an estimated $2 billion a year to cover seasonal expenses such as seed and fertilisers, he said.
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Households use 13 percent of the gas consumed in Bangladesh, the transport sector about 6 percent, fertilisers 6.5 percent and the industrial sector about 17 percent, said Murshed.
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EuroChem, one of the world's largest producers of nitrogen-based fertilisers, has ambitions to be a global potash market player by 2303 with capacity of 2 million tonnes.
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Other Norwegian firms export a range of commodities, such as oil, natural gas, fish and fertilisers, and depend on a well-functioning international system of trade, Soereide said.
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Experts blamed unusually high rainfall across the U.S. Midwest this Spring that washed farm fertilisers along streams and rivers through the Mississippi River Basin out into the Gulf.
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But since the 1960s, they have focused on higher-yielding crops to produce more food using fertilisers, chemicals and new irrigation methods, said researchers at the seed bank.
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A company source had said in January that Louis Dreyfus was ring-fencing its fertilisers, metals, juice and dairy businesses and considering options ranging from joint ventures to disposals.
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A study published in 2016 found that levels of phosphates in the water, from fertilisers and villagers washing themselves with soap, are highest near urban areas and palm plantations.
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The implementation of a nationwide goods-and-services tax in 2017 reduced farmers' incomes by widening the array of taxable goods to include things like chemical fertilisers and pesticides.
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Some of this is natural, some a consequence of industrial effluent, and of seepage from landfills, septic tanks, leaky underground gas tanks and the overuse of fertilisers and pesticides.
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A senior Louis Dreyfus source said earlier this year the company was ring-fencing its fertilisers, metals, juice and dairy units and was seeking partners to help them expand.
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It has also prompted the building of a massive network of dykes, canals and sluice gates, which spread pollution from fertilisers and pesticides and restrict the flow of sediment.
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The Ashgabat government is now trying to process more gas domestically into fuel, electric power and fertilisers which it can then export, and tap the country's other mineral resources.
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The Green Revolution, launched in the 1960s, increased harvests with improved technology, including high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice developed by scientists, and greater use of chemical fertilisers.
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"With a farmer, they made a bag of flour and listed all the fertilisers, pesticides, and fungicides that have to be used in conjunction when growing wheat," she says.
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An El Nino weather pattern, which ended in May, triggered drought conditions across the southern African region, hitting the staple, maize, and other crops and denting demand for fertilisers.
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Transport restrictions related to the pandemic could hamper the distribution of farm supplies such as seeds and fertilisers and disrupt spring fieldwork, the IGC said in a monthly update.
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During Putin's visit, Russia and Saudi Arabia plan to sign 10 deals worth more than $2 billion in sectors including agriculture, railways, fertilisers and petrochemicals, RDIF said last week.
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OSLO (Reuters) - The export of fertilisers from Qatari producer Qafco is unaffected by a regional diplomatic row that has cut off other commodity shipments, Norway's Yara said on Tuesday.
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A second dollar-denominated bond worth $50 million with the same tenor seeks to raise money to import farming chemicals and fertilisers that are not available locally, CBZ said.
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The report said "resilience thinking" could shed light on why many aid projects - including those that pay for seeds, fertilisers and machinery - fail to help people out of poverty.
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BEIJING, July 18 (Reuters) - Chinese fertiliser-maker Kingenta will build around 1,000 service centres in China to boost sales of compound fertilisers and other agricultural products, it said on Tuesday.
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"This was far beyond average because my immediate neighbor who used the normal conventional farming method did not harvest anything, despite of having used fertilisers and certified seed," Gacheke said.
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So far, most traffic on the Russian coast is between Russian Arctic ports or opening exports from Russia of goods such as oil and gas, metals, fertilisers, coal and timber.
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A 2012 U.N.-backed study found a fifth of mangroves worldwide had been lost since 1980, mostly for intensive shrimp farms that often become choked with waste, antibiotics and fertilisers.
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Phosphorus and ammonium nitrate, which mainly come from industrial waste water, pesticides and organic fertilisers, were identified as the major pollutants of water pollution, the MEE said in a statement.
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The company's results are closely tied to oil prices and economic growth as its plastics, fertilisers and metals are used extensively in the construction, agriculture, industrial and consumer goods sectors.
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He said the outlook for the fertilisers market was getting stronger as China was closing more loss-masking facilities because of a coal price rally amid its fight on pollution.
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Many could not afford to apply fertilisers and pesticides in the months leading up to the start of the main crop this year, making their pods increasingly vulnerable to disease.
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According to Nesline Ogwe, who manages an irrigation project in western Kenya, pulses also absorb nitrogen in the soil and feed it to the plant, replacing the need for fertilisers.
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About 60% of Hubei's phosphate production has now been halted and shipments of phosphate-based fertilisers from China fell by around 700,000 tonnes in February, said Russian fertiliser major Phosagro.
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The solution, he said, is ecological agriculture, which replaces chemical fertilisers with natural methods, such as planting trees amid crops and rotating foods grown to improve soils and deter pests.
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Most big publicly owned companies have already been listed but some, including airline Royal Air Maroc and the phosphates and fertilisers producer OCP are still entirely held by the state.
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The second largest listed producer, Saudi Arabia Fertilisers Co (SAFCO), slumped 4.6 percent after the company reported a 51.5 percent decline in net profit to 286 million riyals ($76.3 million).
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The small Himalayan state of Sikkim on India's border with Tibet was declared fully organic in 2016 after phasing out chemical fertilisers and pesticides and substituting them with sustainable alternatives.
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The transaction would allow SABIC to become more specialised in petrochemical products and focus on its expansion in the sector, and for SAFCO to become more specialised in fertilisers and phosphate.
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OSLO, June 6 (Reuters) - The export of fertilisers from Qatari producer Qafco is unaffected by a regional diplomatic row that has cut off other commodity shipments, Norway's Yara said on Tuesday.
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Ma'aden, which is also the Gulf's largest miner, was developing its third project to manufacture phosphate fertilisers at its Waad al-Shamal facility at an estimated cost of 24 billion riyals.
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It could also threaten natural forests and biodiversity, increase competition for fertilisers and water – growing plants for fuel would require large-scale irrigation – and create worsening conflict over land, Lucht said.
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Many farmers have had to abandon their land, unable to afford the soaring cost of seeds, fertilisers and tractor fuel, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme said.
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"There are a lot of vested interests that want to keep selling fertilisers and pesticides," said Emile Frison, member of the Brussels-based International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
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"There are a lot of vested interests that want to keep selling fertilisers and pesticides," said Emile Frison, member of the Brussels-based International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
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ADDIS ABABA, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Morocco's Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP), the world's largest phosphate exporter, signed a deal with Ethiopia on Saturday to build a $3.7 billion plant to produce fertilisers.
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Teresa Anderson, climate policy coordinator for development charity ActionAid International, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation the report should back eco-friendly farming methods, such as avoiding chemical fertilisers and keeping soils healthy.
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Major subsidies, including those on food, fertilisers and petroleum products, estimated at about 2.32 trillion rupees ($34.22 billion) for this fiscal year, are expected to go up only marginally, the officials said.
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"It produces cleaner gas but it doesn't come with the problems of energy crops, which are all associated with intensive farming, pesticides and fertilisers and loss of habitats for wildlife," he added.
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Demand for products ranging from fertilisers to plastics and beauty products would drive roughly a quarter of the expected oil demand growth to 2023, the IEA said in its five-year outlook.
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STAVROPOL, Russia, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Russia's government is looking into introducing duties on exports of mineral fertilisers to make them more affordable for the country's farmers, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
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SABIC's results are closely tied to oil prices and global economic growth because its products — plastics, fertilisers and metals — are used extensively in construction, agriculture, industry and the manufacturing of consumer goods.
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SABIC results are closely tied to oil prices and global economic growth because its products - plastics, fertilisers and metals - are used extensively in construction, agriculture, industry and the manufacturing of consumer goods.
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The total profit for China's petroleum and chemical industry, which also includes fertilisers and other sectors, was 668.37 billion yuan ($95.9 billion) in 2019, down 14.9% from 2018 level, according to CPCIF.
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While the market price of fertilisers has also risen, the company's product deliveries typically lag orders by around three months, Chief Financial Officer Petter Oestboe said during a presentation of the earnings.
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The company's performance is closely tied to oil prices and global economic growth because its products - plastics, fertilisers and metals - are used extensively in construction, agriculture, industry and the manufacture of consumer goods.
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The study by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) said many farmers have been forced to abandon their crops due to rising prices for seeds and fertilisers.
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For fertilisers, Benyan said SABIC wanted to strengthen both SAFCO's and its own business, with the latter looking for opportunities outside of the kingdom to invest in ammonia, urea and specialty urea products.
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"Sonatrach will work with Iraqi gas producing companies to invest in processing gas produced from oilfields to supply electrical power plants and the petrochemical and fertilisers industries," Luaibi said in the ministry statement.
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According to CRU, a market intelligence group specializing in metals, mining and fertilisers, Iran's net hot-rolled (HR) coil consumption was 5.6 million tonnes in 2017, of which 0.8 million tonnes were imported.
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The potential applications Dr Troyer lists include better catalysts, improved engine design, a better understanding of biological molecules and improving things like the Haber process, which produces the bulk of the world's fertilisers.
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Not only do they find it hard to sell their produce, they cannot easily buy fertilisers and equipment or get credit, because doing any of this requires access to a reasonably sized city.
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Instead of promoting cheaper and proven solutions - such as using crop residues to improve soil and non-chemical means of pest control - Ecuador's government offers farmers free synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, he said.
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Antonio Limbau, the Mozambican civil servant who oversees Prosavana, argues that farmers must use hybrid seeds and synthetic fertilisers to farm more intensively, so that "the same piece of land feeds more people".
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Human activities, such as mining and manufacturing, waste from livestock, industry and urban sprawls, and pesticides and fertilisers are the main pollutants contaminating some 5 million locations globally, said environmental scientist Ravi Naidu.
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Prices for phosphate-based fertilisers bottomed out below $350 per tonne in February and were near levels seen during the 2009 global financial crisis, Phosagro Chief Executive Andrey Guryev said in a statement.
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The company's results are closely tied to oil prices and global economic growth because its products - plastics, fertilisers and metals - are used extensively in construction, agriculture, industry and the manufacturing of consumer goods.
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Arsenic and fluoride occur naturally in the groundwater, but become more concentrated as the water becomes scarcer, while nitrates come from fertilisers, pesticides and other industrial waste that has seeped into the supply.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The EU Chemicals Agency ECHA on Friday proposed a ban on deliberately adding microplastics to products such as cosmetics, detergents and agricultural fertilisers in the EU by 2020 to combat pollution.
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Chemicals giants such as BASF and DowDuPont want to understand whether the technology could help them "compute" the structures of useful new materials, such as catalysts to reduce the energy used to make fertilisers.
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More than two-thirds of that demand of around 800 tonnes a year comes from the countryside, where farmers are struggling to get enough cash to buy seeds and fertilisers in the sowing season.
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The couple, Pankaj and Radhika Oswal, wanted A$2.5 billion from the bank following a dispute over its role selling their stake in Burrup Fertilisers in 2010, ANZ said in a statement on Thursday.
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In northern Ethiopia, eco-farming techniques provided better yields than chemical fertilisers in five critical crops, including barley and maize, a project by the Institute for Sustainable Development, an Addis Ababa-based charity, found.
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CCAFS' Recha said it made sense to bring the private sector on board to support small-scale farmers and raise their yields by providing them with access to fertilisers, which are under-used in Africa.
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"These results were supported by the positive potash environment and the growth of our specialty fertilisers business line," said Acting CEO Asher Grinbaum, who will be replaced by Raviv Zoller in the next few days.
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ICL, which produces about a third of the world's bromine and is the sixth-largest potash producer, has sought to counter low commodities prices by diversifying into products such as advanced additives and speciality fertilisers.
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His critics, on the other hand, never believed that any executive could hope to turn around a conglomerate that has multiple misfiring subsidiaries in industries ranging from fertilisers to luxury hotels, cars and power generation.
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The new agreement pertains to shipments between 2019 and 2021 and "will increase the volume and expand the range of phosphorus-based fertilisers supplied to India", Phosagro chief executive Andrey Guryev said in a statement.
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The first sales will be companies already trading on the Egyptian Exchange, most likely Abu Qir Fertilisers and Chemicals Industries and Alexandria Container and Cargo Handling Co., sources familiar with the planned transactions told Reuters.
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"We really need governments to... recognize the importance of agro-ecology in ensuring long-term food security and start shifting their policies to reflect that - for example by moving away from subsidies for fertilisers," she said.
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However, calls to use more pesticides and fertilisers to get more food from the same land are based on wrong assumptions, said Emile Frison of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food).
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The two presidential front-runners, former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa and housing minister Sajith Premadasa, have promised a number of handouts including free of charge fertilisers and higher wages, threatening Sri Lanka's fiscal consolidation path.
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It is full of starchy energy, responds well to organic fertilisers, has a short growing season and can be cultivated in a range of soil types, including the sandy stuff found in parts of East Anglia.
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Chemical fertilisers such as the nitrogen-rich urea were key to the agricultural boom of the 1960s and 70s known as the "Green Revolution" but their cost remains relatively high for farmers in the developing world.
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After finishing his studies at the University of Georgia's School of Agriculture in 923, Mr Harris deployed all the instruments in his new toolkit to increase his farm's profits: chemical fertilisers, pesticides, land tillage, antibiotics, hormones.
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Input costs such as fertilisers and agro-chemicals, which are highly exposed to the exchange rate and make up 60 percent of grain production costs, will also rise after the downgrade, denting farmers' profit margins further.
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OSLO, July 13 (Reuters) - Norwegian fertiliser company Yara International posted worse than expected second-quarter results on Tuesday, citing margins hit by oversupply of certain fertilisers and a rise in gas prices, sending its shares lower.
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This year it plans to finish the cycle of large investments, which will allow it to boost production to 8.5 million tonnes of all fertilisers by 2020 from just under 6 million a few years ago.
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A company source had said in January that Louis Dreyfus was ring-fencing its fertilisers and inputs, metals, juice and dairy units and is considering options ranging from joint ventures to the sale of certain assets.
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Phosagro also said in the statement it has reached an agreement with Indian Potash Ltd (IPL), India's largest importer of mineral fertilisers, and Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund to consider investments in the Russian fertiliser sector.
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The resulting state-of-the-art digital mapping project combines satellite imagery with data from the ground and historical information, to analyze soils and rainfall in different areas and recommend suitable fertilisers and crops, Mamo said.
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The government is studying a program launched by the eastern state of Odisha under which farmers with landholdings of up to 5 acres would get cash assistance to buy seeds, pesticides, fertilisers and pay for labor.
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Privately-held Eurochem, one of the world's largest producers of nitrogen-based fertilisers, plans to produce between 1 million and 2 million tonnes of potash in 2019, up from 500,000-600,000 tonnes in 2018, Ilyin said.
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But with the rise in the use of chemical fertilisers from the 1960s onwards, their importance diminished and they have increasingly been accused of encroaching as demand for land for farming and industrial use grows, said Saberwal.
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The first Green Revolution, which peaked in the 1960s, dramatically boosted harvests in poor parts of the world by introducing high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and irrigation which helped stave off famine in hungry parts of the world.
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Earlier this week the diversified investment company, which invests primarily in fertilisers and petrochemicals, announced its third-quarter net profit came in at $12.1 million, a little more than double its profit in the prior-year period.
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TIM CAWKWELLNorwich, Norfolk Fertilising by tree* You are right to point out that poor access to fertilisers has hobbled agriculture in Africa, is worsening hunger and feeding the vicious cycle of climate change ("Fertile Discussion", October 15th).
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The impact of a possible subsidy cut will not be known until India sets the maximum retail price for fertilisers and other details are known, said Agrium spokesman Richard Downey, adding that its subsidy system was complicated.
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Led by China, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines, seaweed's surge in recent years has seemed environmentally friendly since it needs no fertilisers and has created both jobs and food in remote coastal areas of developing nations.
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The world's largest phosphate exporter, which is 95 percent state-owned, is also considering a factory in Ghana in 2020 as it seeks to bring customised fertilisers closer to key African markets, Karim Lotfi Senhaji told Reuters.
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Rather, it is to praise the monumental productivity growth in the industry, achieved almost entirely by the application of technology in the form of farm machinery, fertilisers and other agrochemicals, along with scientifically improved crops and livestock.
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Arizona farmers who raise fish improved their soil quality, saved money on fertilisers, and received premium price for their fish, added Fitzsimmons, who has advised desert aquaculture farms in the United States, Mexico, and the Middle East.
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Both said "revolutions" were needed to tackle climate change, such as capturing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that burn fossil fuels or by reforming agriculture, where meat production and fertilisers are big sources of greenhouse gases.
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"But it can be hard to switch, as the government subsidizes fertilisers and pesticides and gives cheap loans to farmers, leading them deeper into debt when crops fail or prices fall," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"We are looking all the time, there are a lot of changes around the world, we think it's a good time to buy," he said, adding that deals would mainly involve fertilisers, copper and possibly gold assets.
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"I want to be the part of the Ladakhi women's movement as it is helping Ladakh's environment and agriculture, which is at risk because of the huge influx of tourists and chemical fertilisers," said volunteer Sonam Dolma.
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In Asia, rice was consumed mostly by the wealthy and did not become as ubiquitous until the Green Revolution of the 1960s, when governments introduced higher yielding seeds and better fertilisers to improve output and feed expanding populations.
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The messy overnight recall of high-denomination banknotes in 2016 made it harder for farmers to buy seeds and fertilisers just before the crop-sowing season, and also caused problems for providers of labour, transport and distribution services.
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They got nowhere but on February 3rd ChemChina offered $43 billion to buy Syngenta, forming the world's largest maker of pesticides and fertilisers, a formidable competitor to even the merged agrichemicals businesses of Dow and DuPont (see article).
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cash handouts are the best way to support smallholder farmers struggling due to drought, but for farmers experiencing wetter weather, agricultural inputs such as fertilisers and pesticides help most, a new study has found.
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LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Louis Dreyfus Commodities is ring-fencing its fertilisers and inputs, metals, juice and dairy units and is considering options ranging from joint ventures to the sale of certain assets, a senior company source said.
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"If I need money urgently, I must make a 32 kilometre (20 mile) trip to Satara town, which is not always possible," said the 12.53-year-old sugarcane farmer Shinde, while buying fertilisers for his winter-sown crops.
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A 29.99 pound dress in a high street chain may be made of cotton, an innocuous-sounding natural material, but uses fertilisers which seep into groundwater and create dead zones in lakes and rivers where marine life cannot survive.
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Last May, Indian fertilizer producers including Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF), IFFCO and Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals agreed to import a total of 4.5 million tonnes of potash, with an option to increase that to 5.2 million tonnes.
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"The little capital I had got used up in buying fertilisers, manure and seeds, and I nearly lost my entire tomato harvest to an attack by bacteria wilt," she said, adding that she now sells second-hand clothes instead.
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After Colin Seis, an Australian farmer and cropping specialist, lost 3,000 sheep in a bush fire, he learnt about how to refrain from using fertilisers, how to regenerate land, which plants to grow and how to best feed livestock.
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Plants and their soil microbes could produce their own fertilisers and pesticides, ruminants less greenhouse gas—though to ensure that synthetic biology yields such laudable environmental goals will take public policy as well as the cues of the market.
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He and millions of other farmers cannot get enough cash to buy the seeds and fertilisers they need for their winter crops, threatening production of key commodities and hurting rural communities only just recovering after two years of drought.
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Hydro has a facility, Alunorte, located in the northern state of Para, that turns bauxite into alumina, the white powder used to produce aluminium at smelters, while Yara both produces fertilisers in Brazil and supplies Brazilian farmers with products.
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"We irrigated on time, applied fertilisers like last year, but still yield was 30 percent lower this year as scanty rainfall hit productivity," said Dnyaneshwar Bagal, a farmer from the western state of Maharashtra, whose cane was harvested earlier this month.
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"High agricultural productivity – necessary for profit for farmers, agri-businesses and food retailers, whilst also keeping prices low for consumers – currently requires high levels of application of relatively cheap fertilisers," Horton, who was a corresponding author of the paper, added.
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The rise in developing-country demand is seen largely driven by the petrochemicals industry, which uses oil to make the plastics needed for fertilisers, packaging, detergents and clothes, as well as for electric-car parts, solar panels and wind turbines.
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To help combat hunger, WFP is providing food and monthly cash to some people, and distributing agricultural inputs such as seeds and fertilisers in collaboration with the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization to help farmers prepare for the coming planting season.
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The aim is to install larger versions of the machine in sports venues or airports but also to take it to a rural community in the developing world where fertilisers and reliable drinking water are short in supply, Derese said.
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OCP has a 65 percent market share of phosphates-based fertilisers in Africa, where it plans production plants to tap into what it sees as the potential for fertiliser use to increase five-fold from about 5 million tonnes currently.
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GARLYK, Turkmenistan (Reuters) - Turkmenistan opened a $1 billion Belarussian-built potash plant on Friday, aiming to export 1.2 million tonnes of fertilisers to China and India per year as part of its drive to diversify away from natural gas exports.
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"You invest as much as 30,000 shillings ($295) per acre but you end up getting little income, and when the next planting period comes, you don't have enough money to buy farm inputs like fertilisers and certified seeds," he said.
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PARIS, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Euronext will launch its planned nitrogen fertilisers futures contract on November 14, with March 2017 as the first delivery position, as it aims to diversify its commodities segment to non-food products, the company said on Wednesday.
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"We are looking at opportunities to set up or support local businesses which would encourage residents to harvest the algae from the lake shores, and produce something useful from it - bio-compost, paper and packaging, or organic fertilisers," said Rikhvanova.
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He told Reuters in May the firm was evaluating acquisition opportunities in the range of $3 billion to $6 billion in petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and fertilisers and said it aimed to do the first such deal in the fourth quarter of this year.
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In France, InVivo distributes about 40 percent of crop inputs such as pesticides and fertilisers sold in the European Union's biggest grain producer, but wants to reinforce its position as the world's leading crop chemical makers consolidate through multi-billion merger deals.
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Animal slurry, food scraps or garden clippings are placed in vessels that capture the methane as they decompose, leaving nothing but liquid and solid fertiliser—which add to the emissions savings by taking the place of chemical fertilisers made from fossil fuels.
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Averaging from 2 to 7 hectares of land each, they struggle to make large profits because they do not use the latest farming methods, cannot buy the best fertilisers and pesticides cheaply, and their yields are usually lower than the industry average.
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Agriculture director Andrabi said 2,135 hectares of saffron-growing land - of a total of 13,715 hectares - were being rejuvenated by helping farmers restore soil health with better use of fertilisers, introducing the latest seed varieties, planting more seeds, and acquiring new technology.
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For the past year, the firm's engineers have been developing a suite of technologies there to slash the cost of "precision agriculture", which aims to use sensors and clever algorithms to deliver water, fertilisers and pesticides only to crops that actually need them.
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GARLYK, Turkmenistan, March 31 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan opened a $1 billion Belarussian-built potash plant on Friday, aiming to export 1.2 million tonnes of fertilisers to China and India a year as part of its drive to diversify away from natural gas exports.
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Farmers do not need to buy seed every year as they have to with hybrids - instead they simply save part of their harvest to replant - and the older varieties often need less water and do not need chemical fertilisers and pesticides, Jayaraman said.
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"Obesity is out of control," said Graziano da Silva, who likened the situation to the beginning of the Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s when high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and irrigation helped stave off famine in hungry parts of the world.
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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The financial squeeze on India's farmers is set to worsen because of record high fuel prices and surging costs of fertilisers, posing a challenge to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an election that must be held by May.
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China will give farmers subsidies to build animal waste processing facilities to make fertilisers or to treat manure so it's safe for disposal, and to install biogas plants that use methane to generate electricity, according a government plan announced on Aug. 1.
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The company, Australia's top distributor of fertilisers, said it expects earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of A$285 million to A$295 million ($192 million to $199 million), lower than an earlier range of A$321 million to A$366 million.
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Automated farming machines are also useful in recording data on details such as volumes of fertilisers or other materials used in churning out crops, potentially helping farmers target consumers demanding higher-quality produce as some of that information could be included on food labels.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government on Wednesday offered a credit line to support millions of farmers who have been left short of cash to buy seeds and fertilisers for their winter crops after its decision to cancel 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes.
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Chillies are a safe bet for farmers in times of drought as they do not require fertilisers or water once the roots are established in the soil, said Giuseppe De Bac, project manager in West Pokot County for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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AMMAN, May 27 (Reuters) - Brunei, the largest shareholder in Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), has agreed to sell a 37 percent stake to India's two largest importers and producers of fertilisers in a deal worth around $130 million, the Amman stock exchange said on Sunday.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's shock move to cancel 500 and 1,000 rupee banknotes as legal tender has left millions of farmers with little cash to buy seeds and fertilisers for winter crops, threatening production of key commodities and hurting rural communities that were only just recovering after two years of drought.
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But rural pollution could prove a far bigger and more costly challenge than urban smog, said Ma. "There is a serious lack of infrastructure there for the disposal of human waste and sewage, the huge amount of livestock farming waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides and, of course, the trash," he said.
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JAKARTA, July 2 (Reuters) - * Some rubber farmers in Sumatra and Kalimantan are seeing production decline due to a fungal disease, Indonesia's Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs said in a statement late on Monday * The disease suspected to have spread in some areas because farmers cut back on crop maintenance such as the use of fertilisers due to low rubber price, the ministry said, adding that there could be an outbreak if it is not quickly and appropriately treated * The government is currently monitoring and reviewing the extent of the impact of the disease, Kasdi Soebagyono, Agriculture Ministry's Estate Crops director general, said separately * Authorities are offering technical assistance to farmers and recommending extra dose of fertiliser to control the disease, the statement said * World's top rubber producers Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to cut exports by 240,000 tonnes for four months from April to prop up rubber price.
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