Author: BresterPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
High Fertilizer Prices
Author: BresterFactors Contributing to the Recent Increase in U.S. Fertilizer Prices, 2002-08
Author: Wen-Yuan HuangPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437921108
Category : Fertilizer industry
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Why are fertilizer prices in Malawi high? And what can be done?
Author: Duchoslav, JanPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 5
Book Description
Malawi has a long history of public intervention programs in the fertilizer market, going back to 1992. The latest iteration, the Affordable Inputs Program (AIP), was launched in 2020 and is now under considerable strain because of rapidly escalating fertilizer prices. Under the AIP, the Government of Malawi intends to supply around 428,000 tons of fertilizer (half of it NPK, half urea) to small-holder farmers at a subsidized price of MWK 4,995 per 50 kg bag. It was envisaged that the fertilizer would be imported and distributed by private suppliers and two parastatals, the Smallholder Farmers Fertilizer Revolving Fund of Malawi (SFFRFM) and the Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC). However, the Government found the cost proposed by the private sector through the Fertilizer Association of Malawi (MWK 35,000 per bag) excessive, and is considering sourcing all AIP fertilizer exclusively through SFFRFM and ADMARC. The purpose of this note is to assess the situation and outline the best policy options available to the Government to ensure adequate fertilizer supply in the short time remaining before the onset of the agricultural season in Malawi.
Fertilizer to Remain Tight, Prices High in 1975 and 1976
Author: Richard B. ReidingerFertilizer Markets and Their Interplay with Commodity and Food Prices
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Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
This study analyses the drivers behind the recent price evolution of fertilizers and their interplay with energy and food commodity market prices. First, evidence of speculative behaviour on fertilizer markets is found. However, speculation on derivative markets can hardly be considered as the cause. The recent rapid expansion of this new derivative market might be due to the growing volatility of international fertilizer prices, especially urea, and it is probable that most of the fertilizer derivative products may be used as hedging tools and not as speculative ones. Indeed, the peak in fertilizer prices first occurred on the physical market due to the uncertainty of the grain and fertilizer markets (high volatility). Second, the prices of food commodities have influenced the fertilizer market and not vice versa. The results show that there is substantial co-movement between fertilizers' and food prices, but that the food prices are among the causes of the fertilizer price movements. Higher food prices induced a higher demand for fertilizers, again boosting prices to higher levels. Third, the energy sector triggered the increase in fertilizer prices through the input cost channel. Energy represents a key input in the production of fertilizers. Rising oil and natural gas prices provoked a spark for the nitrogen nutrients whose production depends heavily on energy inputs for production and transport. The same occurred to phosphate and potash, where energy input is less important in their respective production cost structures. Fourth, given the oligopolistic fertilizer supply chain and the inelasticity of the supply of fertilizers (there is a 5 to 10 year delay before new production plants can be put into the supply chain), this created an upward adjustment of the expectations in the fertilizer market causing an upward spiral effect of the price. This eventually might have provoked a price peak in 2007 due to the uncertainty surrounding the low levels of global fertilizer stocks (nitrogen and phosphate). Over the previous 15 years, the excess nitrogen supply has nearly vanished while phosphate and potash have remained at marginal levels, meaning that no buffer could protect the market when an adverse shock occurred in 2007. Fifth, the volatility of energy, food and fertilizer prices move closely together in an environment of rising energy prices. In the opposite scenario, food and fertilizer volatility do not move together with the volatility of energy prices in an environment of decreasing energy prices. Consistent with other studies, the volatility of fertilizer, energy and food prices was lower during the commodity price peak of 2007/08 than during the 1973/74 oil price shock.
Composition and Prices of Commercial Fertilizers in New York in 1922
Author: Lucius Lincoln Van SlykePublisher:
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Category : Fertilizers
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
World fertilizer trends and outlook to 2022
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251318948
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This report presents the world nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer medium-term supply and demand forecasts for the period 2017-2022. FAO, in collaboration with other members of the Fertilizer Outlook Expert Group dealing with fertilizer production, consumption and trade, provides forecasts of world and regional fertilizer supply, demand and potential balance.
Jonne Roriz
Author: Jonne RorizPublisher: Carcara Photo Art
ISBN: 6586197074
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Carcara Photo Art's Brazilian Photography collection presents Jonne Roriz. Unusual angles, creativity, obsession. Roriz’s restless eye seems to dispute with the characters the privilege of living a limit experience.
Evaluating Fertilizer Subsidies in Developing Countries
Author: Dana G. DalrymplePublisher:
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Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Restrictions on Using More Fertilizer for Food Crops in Developing Countries, Department of State and Other Federal Agencies
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description