National Fertilizer Production Increases by 6% in the First Quarter

According to the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China Chemical News, in March, the country produced a total of 5.474 million tons of fertilizer (amount of purification), an increase of 7.7% year-on-year; a total of 14.428 million tons of chemical fertilizer was produced in the first quarter, an increase of 6% year-on-year. In terms of sub-species, the output of phosphate fertilizer and potash fertilizer continued to maintain a high growth trend. In March, the country produced 1.277 million tons of phosphate fertilizer, an increase of 22.9% over the same period of last year. In the first quarter, the cumulative production of phosphate fertilizer was 3.387 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 22.3%. A total of 211,000 tons of potash fertilizer was produced in March, an increase of 41.1% year-on-year; in the first quarter, a total of 589,000 tons of potash fertilizer was produced, an increase of 43.3% year-on-year. The growth rate of nitrogen fertilizer production was relatively small. In March, the total nitrogen fertilizer production was 3.885 million tons, which was a year-on-year increase of 3.5%. In the first quarter, cumulative production of nitrogen fertilizer was 10.441 million tons, an increase of 0.5% year-on-year.