Nitrogen-based fertiliser consumption represents about 60 percent of total fertiliser consumption, Euronext said.
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This gets round the problem that liquid manure, though a good fertiliser, is not standardised, so is more difficult than commercial fertiliser to apply in the right quantities.
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Ibn Al-Baytar is a 50/50 joint venture between SABIC and SAFCO which produces ammonia, urea, compound fertiliser, phosphate, and liquid fertiliser, according to information on SABIC's website.
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It is now in the process of selling its fertiliser business in Africa and will seek fertiliser partners in other regions, Chief Executive Officer Gonzalo Ramirez Martiarena told the Reuters Commodities Summit.
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It plans to separate its fertiliser, juice, dairy and metals activities from the rest of the group and consider alliances, with the process under way at its fertiliser and seeds division, it said.
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OSLO, June 26 (Reuters) - Yara International, one of the world's largest fertiliser makers, raised its profit and dividend targets on Wednesday and said it may spin off its non-fertiliser business next year.
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Past governments in Zambia have directed fertiliser to electoral strongholds.
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Hence the lack of need for fertiliser or crop rotation.
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Petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer Industries Qatar lost 25 percent.
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Most of them do not use improved seeds or fertiliser.
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Last year, it launched a $1 billion potash fertiliser plant.
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Ethiopia at present imports around 900,000 tonnes of fertiliser each year.
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Some are big, like those doling out subsidised food and fertiliser.
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Pollution, notably fertiliser run-off, damages a lot of marine ecosystems.
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Petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer Industries Qatar was up 1.0 percent.
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Governments from Tanzania to Nigeria started forking out for fertiliser again.
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A fertiliser subsidy scheme takes up most of the agriculture budget.
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Fertiliser and explosives producer Incitec Pivot Ltd , was the top percentage loser on the benchmark after it said it would review its fertiliser business and lowered its operating profit forecast due to drought and increased costs.
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Environmentally friendly practices like spreading manure fertiliser and producing seeds also prevail.
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Terra preta should not be mistaken for compost or fertiliser, Matzusaka says.
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The state has been producing around half of India's fertiliser for years.
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The country has deposits of gold, copper, zinc and fertiliser-ingredient potash.
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The sorry history of fertiliser subsidies shows the cost of official ineptitude.
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But most farmers grow low-value crops without decent fertiliser or seeds.
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A fertiliser subsidy scheme takes up most of the spending on agriculture.
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"Unfortunately, fertiliser use is now known to have a negative environmental impact."
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Produced at scale, polyhalite has potential to disrupt the global fertiliser industry.
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Polyhalite is meant to be superior to the traditional fertiliser ingredient potash.
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Subsidies have led to overuse of fertiliser, prompting soil depletion and water pollution.
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Human and animal droppings were gathered up and spread on fields as fertiliser.
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Researcher IBIS World estimates Australia's fertiliser industry is worth about A$4 billion.
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Fertial, a fertiliser company linked to Mr Haddad, is struggling to pay wages.
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Meanwhile, cement and fertiliser stocks also enjoyed a strong trading session, Rasool said.
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BERLIN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - German potash miner K+S has acquired a stake in a Saudi fertiliser maker, plus an option to acquire more, in order to take advantage of growing demand for fertiliser in irrigation systems in the region.
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ASK Anesi Chishiko about fertiliser, and she points to her goats and her trees.
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Cheaper fertiliser has pepped up farm production and, in places like Malawi, raised incomes.
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It has donated 25,000 tonnes of fertiliser to Guinea and trained 300 Malian imams.
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Fertiliser imports are rising; in Western province, an agricultural hub, most farmers use it.
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Only 4% of cropland was irrigated; fertiliser use was 10% of the world average.
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Some cannot afford inputs such as seed and fertiliser, let alone install irrigation systems.
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After independence, governments doled out maize seed and fertiliser, even where soils were unsuitable.
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Natural gas is one of the hydrocarbon sources of Ammonia, a key fertiliser ingredient.
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The by-products of the process are used for animal feed, fertiliser and fuel.
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Worldwide, about 124kg of artificial fertiliser is used per hectare of farmland per year.
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MELBOURNE, May 13 (Reuters) - Fertiliser and explosives maker Incitec Pivot Ltd reported a 6.4 percent fall in half-year profit before one-off items on Tuesday, hit by sliding fertiliser prices and weaker mine explosives demand and warned of a tough second half.
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Converting waste into fertiliser saves space in landfills and provides an extra source of revenue.
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Elephants are intelligent, sensitive, beautiful and endangered beings and their droppings are excellent natural fertiliser.
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Although Marie has planted improved seeds and used some fertiliser, her crops have fared poorly.
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Local farmers wring their hands about similar increases in the price of fertiliser and petrol.
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A charge sheet presented in court by the prosecutor's office said the fertiliser contained mercury.
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India and China, the world's biggest fertiliser consumers, usually sign contracts earlier in the year.
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Better seeds and fertiliser, as well as niftier techniques, could send Africa's farm yields soaring.
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Their nitrogen-rich urine leaches off soil into waterways, where it acts like a fertiliser.
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Farmers are cutting back on fertiliser use in the summer months, putting pressure on prices.
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It also sells compound fertiliser, a blend of processed phosphates, nitrogen, potash and often sulphur.
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However, low fertiliser production and the high cost of importing fertilisers has limited seed production.
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Fertiliser consumption in Nigeria ranks below its African peers at around 100 kg per hectare.
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Plots that received no nitrogen-based fertiliser at all averaged 5.5 tonnes of rice per hectare.
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China's state planner has asked local governments and companies to ensure fertiliser output for spring planting.
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The December fertiliser output was down 9.3 percent from November's 5.24 million tonnes, the data showed.
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But much of that is swallowed up in a costly system of seed and fertiliser subsidies.
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Mr Sims, for instance, now uses data on yields to fine-tune the application of fertiliser.
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Companies that sell everything from tractors to fertiliser to consumer goods to farmers would be vulnerable.
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What intrigued Dr Shapiro, however, was that it needs neither fertiliser nor crop rotation to flourish.
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The group's fertiliser division also encompasses distribution of other crop inputs such as seeds and pesticides.
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Norway's Yara, among the world's largest fertiliser makers, rose 4.2% after its quarterly earnings beat estimates.
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As a result, fertiliser is expensive and much food is wasted on the way to market.
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Euronext hopes its contract will attract farm cooperatives, fertiliser dealers, manufacturers as well as end users.
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White teff is harder to grow, so the farmers are using more fertiliser and improved seed.
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For example, they fix nitrogen from the air into soluble nitrates that act as natural fertiliser.
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It did not disclose the value of the contract, awarded by state-run Brunei Fertiliser Industries.
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Activist shareholder Elliott Management expressed concerns over BHP's proposal to enter the over-supplied fertiliser market.
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Owners can use their property as collateral, perhaps borrowing money to buy fertiliser and better seeds.
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But high transport costs along potholed roads also help make fertiliser up to 50% more expensive in Tanzania and 80% more expensive in Mali than in Thailand, according to Amit Roy, formerly of the International Fertiliser Development Centre, an American charity which supports better farming practices.
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For example, some farmers in rural areas have reportedly been unable to purchase seeds and/or fertiliser.
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The amounts of water, fertiliser, fuel and other resources used to produce never-consumed food are vast.
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Water for irrigation is free, and seeds, diesel fuel, electricity and fertiliser are all sold below cost.
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That can be used to improve the crop yield of local farms, displacing synthetic fertiliser, he said.
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There had been speculation that fertiliser billionaire Dmitry Mazepin was considering investing in the former world champions.
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It was a revolt against a blood-drenched tyrant who had recently slashed fuel and fertiliser subsidies.
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Newly-listed fertiliser firm Notore reported a wider loss before taxes for the nine-months to June.
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Subsidised fertiliser intended for smallholders has often been resold at market rates with middlemen pocketing the profit.
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In Rwanda, One Acre Fund, a charity, provides its clients seeds, fertiliser, know-how and, crucially, credit.
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Indian farmers need more fertiliser, but imports are taboo and price controls discourage investment in new factories.
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Fertiliser producer Grupa Azoty estimated on Thursday that its 2016 net profit stood at 375 million zlotys.
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Farmers douse their crops with fertiliser and insecticide, which poison streams and rivers—and possibly human beings.
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Anglo American dropped 2.5% after saying it was in advanced talks to buy fertiliser maker Sirius Minerals.
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Instead, the government subsidised tractors, mills and fertiliser and arranged cheaper loans to boost domestic rice production.
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The saltwater emerges from the production of fertiliser from potash ore that K+S extracts from mines.
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To bolster its fertiliser activities in South America and Australia, where Dreyfus buys a lot of grain from farmers but where its fertiliser profits have lagged, it aims to find next year "one or two miners" as joint venture partners to help bear price risk, the CEO said.
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Clever new technologies to turn it into fertiliser or chemicals or fuel are being developed all the time.
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Fuel prices spiked in early April, and NGOs have begun to notice shortages of fertiliser in the countryside.
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Lithuanian fertiliser and chemical producer Achema bought four cargoes for delivery in the fourth quarter from Norway's Equinor.
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The company attributed its growth to higher sales volume in gold, ammonia and fertiliser, and control over costs.
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Shops selling seeds and fertiliser; others stocked with tools and machinery; a few simple restaurants and a motel.
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Fertiliser prices crashed after China abolished a seasonal export duty in 2015, flooding the market with additional volumes.
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One of India's biggest fertiliser importers, Indian Potash Limited (IPL), will buy 700,000 tonnes of potash at $13 per tonne on a cost and freight (CFR) basis with a credit period of 180 days, Belarusian Potash Company, Belarus's state-controlled trader of this fertiliser, said in a statement on Monday.
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Fertiliser stocks however gained with Engro Corporation Ltd gaining 13 percent and Fauji Fertilizer Company Ltd rising 1.46 percent.
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Last year, he took out a loan for 10,000 shillings and received seeds and fertiliser in lieu of cash.
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IN ALDOUS HUXLEY'S "Brave New World", the human corpses in Slough Crematorium are turned into a phosphorous-based fertiliser.
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But trials by Pula in Nigeria, this time with fertiliser, suggest that farmers will pay more for insured bags.
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And as prices have plunged, fertiliser and crop nutrient costs have risen, thanks in part to a weak rupee.
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These include the nitrogen used in fertiliser, which passes from the land into rivers and then into the sea.
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Provided the levels of contaminants are not too high, the mussels could be used as animal feed or fertiliser.
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These investments are part of a strategy to boost phosphate-based fertiliser use and production in Africa, he said.
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Data from Uganda show that significantly fewer farmers, 10%, are using hybrid seeds and only 3% are using fertiliser.
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Limited supply of fertiliser and fuel last year also contributed to the limited crop production in 2015, FAO said.
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In addition to bean purchases, Cocobod's budget pays for roads, fertiliser and pesticide distributions, as well as administrative costs.
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The deals to be signed will include agriculture, the railway, fertiliser and petrochemical sectors, Kirill Dmitriev, RDIF's chief, said.
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Inorganic fertiliser is too costly: the government offers subsidies, but only "clever people" know how to get them, she explains.
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Both China and India, the world's biggest fertiliser consumers, usually sign their contracts for potash purchases earlier in the year.
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One Acre Fund, a charity, offers small farmers a bundle of seeds, fertiliser, crop insurance and training, all on credit.
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The new plant generates not only electricity, but also heat for the farm's greenhouses, with fertiliser as a by-product.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange's materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertiliser companies, was down 1 percent.
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Fertiliser run-off alone causes $200bn-800bn worth of damage to the ocean, compared with $13bn from plastic marine litter.
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Nitrogen fertiliser, used to increase fodder yields so that more cows can be raised on less land, exacerbates the problem.
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He is best known today for devising a way to produce artificial fertiliser that is vital to feeding the world.
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Numerous subsidies for fertiliser, power, water and so forth are snaffled by better-off farmers or go into officials' pockets.
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A company, Sirius Minerals, is about to dig up the area's vast underground stash of polyhalite, an ingredient in fertiliser.
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UAN 30 is a fertiliser solution derived from urea and ammonium nitrate with a total nitrogen content of 30 percent.
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Our research investigating the quality of agricultural inputs found that in local markets, 30% of nutrient is missing in fertiliser.
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Most of the population is poor and rural: scant access to credit, energy, seeds and fertiliser keeps agricultural productivity low.
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A successful deal between the two Canadian fertiliser producers would help them grow into a global giant in the field.
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Or if we say we're going to push for X million tonnes of production, that argues for more fertiliser subsidies.
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Many farmers are forced to borrow money at exorbitant interest rates from private money lenders to buy seeds and fertiliser.
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After treatment, the liquid will be sprayed on the surrounding forest, and solids sold to nearby farms as organic fertiliser.
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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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China uses twice as much fertiliser and pesticide per hectare as the world average, contributing to catastrophic levels of soil pollution.
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Many try to subsidise fertiliser for poor farmers, only for the stuff to be stolen before it reaches the intended recipient.
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"The effects of repeated climate shocks are compounded by shortages of fuel, fertiliser and spare parts crucial for farming," Verhoosel said.
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BASF's most celebrated breakthrough was its discovery in 1913 of a way to mass-produce fertiliser, which helped eliminate mass hunger.
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Dealing with this both reduced fuel bills and improved the uniformity and effectiveness of things like fertiliser, herbicide and pesticide spraying.
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More damage is caused by fertiliser-rich run-off from farms, leading to algal blooms which block light the corals need.
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The petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer posted 63 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit to 8083 million riyals ($63.2 million).
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In January, Anglo made a 405 million pound ($523 million) cash bid to buy a British fertiliser project from Sirius Minerals.
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Though the newly compounded fertiliser is more expensive to produce than its conventional equivalent, Dr Kottegoda calculates that this cost would quickly be offset if using urea-hydroxyapatite obviated the need to re-scatter fertiliser over a paddy after heavy rain—and that does not even take into account the increase in yield it brings with a single application.
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A GPS-equipped tractor can then precisely spray water, fertiliser or pesticides only where needed, increasing yields and reducing chemical run-off.
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"Here they were looking to sell construction risk for a company that was selling fertiliser which goes into agriculture," the source said.
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Hence the recent enthusiasm for a technique called anaerobic digestion, which extracts energy and fertiliser from biodegradable waste while also reducing emissions.
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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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All of the faeces from base camp would then be converted into two by-products: fertiliser and methane gas, possibly for cooking.
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Farmers who slap cheap fertiliser on their fields grow fewer nitrogen-fixing legumes, a cheap and green way of improving the soil.
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This has helped depress prices for corn and soyabeans in recent years, even as land, fertiliser and seed have remained relatively expensive.
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Cosmetics maker L'Oreal SA and fertiliser maker Yara International ASA rose 6.7% and 4.9%, respectively, after posting better-than-expected quarterly profits.
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And it is risky for farmers to spend money on fertiliser when, without irrigation, they are at the mercy of the rains.
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Data-intensive farming is helping improve agricultural yields of feed crops like soyabeans by carefully monitoring the use of water and fertiliser.
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That makes social safety-nets very different from things like fuel and fertiliser subsidies, which tend to go to middle-class people.
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In Ethiopia, OCP sold a customised fertiliser combining phosphates, nitrogen and sulphur which helped increase maize yield by 37 percent, he said.
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Fertiliser group K+S tumbled 10.4 percent after it warned that 2016 could see a significant drop in the company's operating profit.
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The energy needed to produce food, through fuel for tractors and lorries, fertiliser production and more, releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
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Some countries, like Ghana and Malawi, have thrown money at fertiliser subsidies in flush years only to cut back when budgets tighten.
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The dry bulker Bonita carried a cargo of gypsum, a mineral commonly used as fertiliser, which was destined for Benin, Ugland said.
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The dry bulker Bonita carried a cargo of gypsum, a mineral commonly used as fertiliser, which was destined for Benin, Ugland said.
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Shares in fertiliser company K+S fell 4.7 percent after Deutsche Bank cut its rating on the stock to "sell" from "hold".
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"We could not offer a higher price to suppliers due to lower subsidy support," the official with the private fertiliser maker said.
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However, Russian supplies account only for about 8 percent of India's fertiliser imports, which are mainly sourced from Canada, Israel and China.
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Outside Saudi Arabia, Industries Qatar, a petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer, proposed a 83 dividend of 5 riyals, down from 7 riyals.
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Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa use little fertiliser: the region accounts for just 1.5% of the world's consumption of nitrogen, a crucial nutrient.
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In Zimbabwe Russians advised the ruling Zanu-PF party before elections last year, and Kremlin-linked firms have signed mining and fertiliser deals.
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In addition, agricultural and municipal waste is in demand for other uses such as fertiliser, which may limit the expansion of biogas generation.
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Well-designed insurance prods farmers to invest more in seed and fertiliser, because they are less worried about being wiped out by drought.
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The chemical industry makes millions of tonnes of the stuff in this way, largely as an ingredient of ammonia for the fertiliser market.
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By investing in soil research, microcredit and logistics, it hopes to turn subsistence farmers into commercial growers—and buyers of its phosphate fertiliser.
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In 2018 it created a business with Bayer, a chemical company, to develop microbes which would make fertiliser inside a plant's root system.
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The plant, created to use hydroelectric power to make fertiliser, had developed a rare speciality in the manufacture of deuterium oxide—"heavy water".
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Outgrower schemes, in which firms such as TGI provide training, fertiliser and other chemicals on credit that is repaid after harvest, can help.
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The supply of fertiliser, which comes from a massive poultry farm in nearby Wakefield, is limited by the prodigiousness of its chickens' bowels.
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Fertiliser produced by the plant will be used to boost agriculture output in Tanzania, while surplus capacity will be exported to foreign markets.
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India's Fertiliser and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT) issued a tender on Friday to import around three cargoes over the year to August 2017.
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Demand for fertiliser in Australia fell 2 percent to total 6.5 million tonnes last season, according to data from industry group Fertilizer Australia.
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Supriyono said production growth in 2020 is expected to slow as drought and a cut in fertiliser usage last year will likely affect yield.
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The 50,000 tonnes of Gorge Farm's residue that can be used annually for biogas can produce 35,000 tonnes of a natural fertiliser by-product.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping resources including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell 2 points to 291 points.
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At the dawn of the 20th century, chemists dreamed of extracting nitrogen from the air and turning it into a limitless supply of fertiliser.
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Instead of doling out bags of fertiliser, the government plans to give farmers "e-vouchers" (like a bank card) to buy their own inputs.
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In the 1990s, when state-owned factories ran short of cash but had bulging inventories, some paid workers with goods, from fridges to fertiliser.
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The company said this would spur it to in the premium fertiliser segment and within industrial applications, where it said margins are more stable.
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He added that Malaysian palm oil yields were in a declining trend due to a lack of replanting and a cutback in fertiliser use.
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From his vantage-point, Mr Figueiredo waves towards the only clearing in the arboreal landscape: an unfinished Petrobras fertiliser plant a few kilometres away.
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The completion of the next phase will lift the kingdom's phosphate fertiliser production to 9 million tonnes annually, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said.
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Indian farmers are price sensitive and have in the past trimmed purchases when prices rose, said a senior official with a private fertiliser company.
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Fertiliser maker Sirius Minerals slipped 7.1 percent after modifying its debt plans, while temporary power provider Aggreko shed 5 percent after a Barclays downgrade.
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China Yurun Food Group subsidiary Nanjing Yurun Food and fertiliser maker Inner Mongolia Nailun Group are among companies that recently announced debt-payment problems.
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Crop commodities prices declined further during the first months of 2016, weighing heavily on farmers' decisions to take positions on fertiliser volumes, ICL said.
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Bank of Zambia governor Denny Kalyalya said on Wednesday the kwacha was under pressure due to higher demand for petroleum, electricity and fertiliser imports.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, dropped one point to 1943 points.
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Although the charity expects some repayment before it hands out seeds and fertiliser, farmers can pay off the balance at any point in the year.
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In Uganda, for instance, the market is so awash with understrength bags of fertiliser and feeble seeds that farmers are reluctant to invest in them.
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Engro itself almost went bankrupt in 2012 after the government refused to honour a sovereign guarantee to provide gas to one of its fertiliser plants.
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However, India halted potash imports in February this year and delayed negotiations after successive droughts dented demand in one of the world's biggest fertiliser consumers.
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Making sure each farmer gets one dose of subsidised fertiliser and all poor families their share of rice is fiendish without knowing who they are.
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A container bearing Hamburg Sud's logo, for example, sits behind a trailer at a fertiliSer plant owned by state oil company PDVSA outside Puerto Cabello.
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The UAN fertiliser contract will be priced in euros, lots will be for 30 metric tonnes in bulk, ready for loading by truck or rail.
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PARIS, May 10 (Reuters) - Euronext will launch in the autumn of this year nitrogen fertiliser futures for the European market, the exchange said on Tuesday.
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If wheat rhizomes could be encouraged, by genomic breeding or genome editing, to behave likewise, the benefits for everyone except fertiliser companies would be enormous.
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Egypt's gas shortfall has led to rationing among energy-intensive industries such as steel mills and fertiliser plants and caused some output disruption last year.
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The Melbourne-based company also said a strategic review of its fertiliser business is progressing, and a final decision will be made in fiscal 2020.
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Two Belarussian government sources told Reuters Ashgabat has not fully paid a Belarussian state-owned company for building a fertiliser plant launched in March 2017.
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation provided most of the financing for the Garabogaz nitrogen fertiliser plant, while state firm Turkmenhimiya paid the remaining costs.
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Now he is building the world's largest single oil refinery and also expanding into fertiliser, aiming to address long-standing problems in Nigeria's energy markets.
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Poll: The company said it reached an agreement with Australia's Kalium Lakes to purchase up to 90,000 tonnes of fertiliser potassium sulfate over 10 years.
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The new measures put restrictions on farming intensification, conversion of land for dairying, and the amount of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser farmers can use on fields.
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Greenpeace welcomed the plans, adding that dairy cow numbers have almost doubled since the 1990s and the use of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser has increased 600%.
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The Times Mining group Anglo American Plc is in advanced discussions to buy fertiliser company Sirius Minerals Plc for 2000 million pounds ($235 million). bit.
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One of Sirius's shafts has descended 8003 metres beneath the North York Moors on the way to a 2800m-year-old, 285bn-tonne fertiliser deposit.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping resources including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell by 1 point to 290 points.
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Over and above this is the potential improvement in efficiency of use of scarce and valuable resources that would include water, fertiliser, and even land.
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To find out whether the new fertiliser would make a difference in the field, Dr Kottegoda collaborated with some farmers near Sammanthurai, in eastern Sri Lanka.
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An Indian fertiliser company official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said lower prices and favourable rainfall for crops could boost potash consumption this year.
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The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on Twitter they were charged with attempted murder over the importation of 5,846,000 bags of substandard fertiliser.
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The fertiliser and phosphate company said that its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) margin was 30.5 percent, up from 26.2 percent in 13.
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The fertiliser, chemicals and mining explosives maker said its profit after tax was down 8 percent to 592 million rand ($46 million) following lower operating profit.
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In the 19th century a craze for guano for use as fertiliser leads to the occupation of dozens of uninhabited islands in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Another likely contender is Russian fertiliser billionaire Dmitry Mazepin, whose son Nikita competes in the GP3 support series and is a development driver for Force India.
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The FAO report said almost 1.5 million households engaged in agriculture lacked access to critical inputs such as seeds, fertiliser, fuel for irrigation or animal feed.
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Even harder to overcome, he said, is the view of night soil as the "best fertiliser in North Korea," despite the risk of worms and parasites.
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The planned fertiliser product will add to Euronext's commodity offering which includes the milling wheat futures <0#BL2:> that are a benchmark for the European market.
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CALLUM CLENCHExecutive directorInternational Water Resources AssociationParis You correctly noted the potential for African farmers to increase their production through the use of hybrid seed and fertiliser.
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Soil runoff can include manure and fertiliser used on farms, which may pollute drinking water and make people sick, said Philip Muthui, the company's production manager.
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As though in retaliation, another nearby team has created a variety of sorghum that yields about 22000% more than the indigenous kind even without additional fertiliser.
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And small farmers are usually starved of credit—one large survey for the World Bank found that only 1% of Nigerian farmers borrowed to buy fertiliser.
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Sales of some downstream parts of the company, such as its fertiliser plant and petrochemicals business, would leave Pemex to focus on oil exploration and production.
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The agriculture ministry was allocated 30.1 trillion rupiah ($2.17 billion) for fertiliser subsidies in the 2016 budget, up from 18.8 trillion rupiah ($1.35 billion) in 2011.
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DIA said Enrique Weckert Molina, a former executive of builder OHL and fertiliser and chemical company Grupo Fertiberia, had taken over as group Chief Financial Officer.
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Omnia, which raised funds for two acquisitions and the construction of a new fertiliser plant, said last month it had agreed to restructuring talks with creditors.
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Only agricultural bulk products such as grains, soya bean meal, fertiliser and wood chips, deemed essential during the lockdown, would still be handled, the note said.
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Among other gainers, fertiliser shares gained after Jaitley said he expected the agriculture sector to grow at 4.1 percent in 2016/17 with a better monsoon.
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CBZ said in a notice it wanted to raise 500 million Zimbabwe dollars ($30.6 million) to purchase seeds, fertiliser and chemicals for maize and soybean production.
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Waterlogged fields could pose a bigger risk to French crops, with the possibility of plant roots being damaged and nutrients such as nitrogen fertiliser being lost.
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Crucially, the money would largely come from recycling funds from around 950 existing welfare schemes, including those that offer subsidised food, water, fertiliser and much else besides.
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Among the bright spots, cosmetics maker L'Oreal SA hit a record high and fertiliser maker Yara International ASA rose 5.3% after posting better-than-expected quarterly profit.
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In Zambia, studies have found that a third of subsidised fertiliser never reaches the intended beneficiaries, and is probably resold commercially, with crooked middlemen pocketing the subsidy.
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Nigeria wants to cut prices, and the need for subsidies, by making more fertiliser domestically: it recently struck a deal with Morocco for phosphate, a raw material.
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First, China's chemical and fertiliser industries were poorly regulated for decades and the soil still stores the waste that was dumped on it for so many years.
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Andrey Guryev, the chief executive of fertiliser company Phosagro said the rouble's fair value was 63-65 per dollar and grumbled about the 9.75 percent interest rate.
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TEL AVIV, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Raviv Zoller will likely be appointed chief executive of fertiliser and specialty chemicals maker Israel Chemicals (ICL) , Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
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Analysts said it was too early to forecast 2019/20 demand for fertiliser and crop protection products as rain later in the season could bolster appetite again.
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The farmers near Ijenda, a village 45km from Bujumbura, used to sell vegetables to people on the road and use the proceeds to buy flour and fertiliser.
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Low rubber prices in the past five to six years disincentivise the use of fertiliser, making rubber trees unhealthy and prone to the disease, the ITRC said.
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Small-cap Sirius Minerals ended 8.4% higher, having surged nearly 40% earlier, as the fertiliser maker produced a revised development plan for its North Yorkshire polyhalite project.
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The company had warned in September that dry weather conditions and increased gas costs at the Gibson Island fertiliser plant in Queensland would dent its annual performance.
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GARABOGAZ, Turkmenistan, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan launched a $1.5 billion nitrogen fertiliser plant on its Caspian coast on Monday, seeking to diversify exports dominated by natural gas.
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In December, Reuters reported the trade house had been seeking buyers for its juice and fertiliser units for some months, as it focused on higher-margin activities.
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On Monday, petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer Industries Qatar posted a 1.6 percent drop in third-quarter net profit, according to Reuters calculations, in line with forecasts.
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We grow leafy greens because that's what grows best with the waste from the fish and means we can minimise the amount of fertiliser we add in.
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The three scholars have studied absenteeism among teachers and nurses, immunisation programmes, the management of public infrastructure and the use of productivity-boosting technologies such as fertiliser.
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TEL AVIV, May 33 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals (ICL) reported lower quarterly profit that missed estimates on Wednesday, weighed down by lower fertiliser sales and higher financing expenses.
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Lucky Cement Ltd gained as much as 3.46 percent, Fauji Cement Company Ltd rose 2.37 percent, and fertiliser manufacturer Dawood Hercules Corporation Ltd ended up 4 percent.
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It is also targeting an increase in fertiliser production to 12 million tonnes by 2017 from 7 million in 2014, which would make it the world's leading producer.
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DUBAI, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Two Saudi petrochemical giants have hired investment banks to advise on the potential sale of a stake in the Ibn Al-Baytar fertiliser company.
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At the same time, the benefits rolls are filled with fake beneficiaries, created by those seeking to palm undeserved rations of fertiliser, food or some other subsidised good.
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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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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell 1 point, or 0.28 percent, to 354 points.
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For the fertiliser business, the aim was to bring Dreyfus' distribution network among farmers together with a major producer, Ramirez said, declining to comment further on potential partners.
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To make matters worse, the soil is bearing the burden of the excess use of fertiliser and pesticide, which has increased as China's demand for grain has risen.
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The fund can also resume investing in Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim's Grupo Carso, U.S. defence company General Dynamics and fertiliser-maker Nutrien, the board added in a statement.
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The first phase of construction—two container berths and one for bulk goods like fertiliser, plus EU-funded road and rail links—is due for completion by 2021.
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K+S has for years fought complaints by environmental groups and some local municipalities about the discharge of salty waste water from processing potash ore into fertiliser products.
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"The factory will use natural gas to manufacture fertiliser and will be built in joint venture with a group of investors," the president's office said in a statement.
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JERUSALEM, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Fertiliser and specialty chemicals maker Israel Chemicals (ICL) said on Sunday its board had appointed insurance boss Raviv Zoller as its new chief executive.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, dipped three points or 0.96 percent to 314 points.
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A poor season last year also meant that farmers stopped applying fertiliser earlier than usual, leaving them with stockpiles that still need to be worked through, growers said.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell seven points or 2275 percent to 21 points.
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But reduced usage of fertiliser, labour shortages and older trees in Malaysia could limit growth in output of the commodity, used in products ranging from soap to biofuels.
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Some 63 metres from where Mr Bosch (of fertiliser fame) made his breakthrough, Marina Safont Sempere, a young chemist from Spain, is working on what could be another.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell four points or 2212 percent to 210 points.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell 2348 points or 3.56 percent to 325 points.
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Top companies that could be affected by the talks include consumer goods maker Orkla, fertiliser maker Yara , metals producer Hydro and oil services companies Aker Solutions and Kvaerner.
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Under Chief Executive Gonzalo Ramirez Martiarena, appointed in 2015, it has set out plans to bring in outside investors for non-core activities such as fertiliser and metals.
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It will cover 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser for wheat and soya farming - worth $55 million - and $26 million for projects such as the expansion of grain storage silos.
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The car parts-to-submarines company also said it has made progress regarding to strategic options for its Plant Technology division, which builds cement, chemicals and fertiliser plants.
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K+S said on Wednesday that finance chief Burkhard Lohr will become chief executive next year, replacing Norbert Steiner who has run the fertiliser maker for a decade.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell five points or 2314 percent to 2197 points.
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SAFCO is considering taking full control of chemical fertiliser producer Ibn Al-Baytar by buying out its joint venture partner SABIC, SAFCO said in a bourse statement in March.
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The drop came after natural gas shortages this winter forced many gas-based fertiliser plants to shut, tightening supplies and pushing up prices in the world's top agricultural market.
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Inventories and output in the world's second-largest palm oil producer have been falling since September last year due to dry weather and lower fertiliser application earlier in 2019.
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The CEO said the company had received offers for its fertiliser business after hiring Credit Suisse to look into sale options but wanted to retain ownership within a partnership.
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Inventories and output in the world's second-largest palm oil producer after Indonesia have been falling since September due to dry weather and lower fertiliser application earlier in 21.
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Unlike in Pyongyang, people have fewer ways of getting around sanctions, which are starting to cause shortages of fuel and fertiliser, according to NGOs that work in the country.
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Saudi Arabia Fertilizers (SAFCO) said it was considering taking full control of chemical fertiliser producer National Chemical Fertilizers Co (Ibn Al-Bayttar) by buying out SABIC's 50 percent stake.
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India typically opens negotiations for imports of the key fertiliser ingredient in February, aiming to sign new contracts before the start of the next fiscal year on April 1.
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FLAKES of dried chicken droppings blow through the air as Jared Gubbels supervises the transfer of the stuff from an agricultural truck into the fertiliser spreader trailing his tractor.
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"The plant, which will become Africa's biggest fertiliser producer, will have a capacity of producing 3,800 tonnes per day and will employ up to 5,000 people," the statement said.
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Farm experts also favoured the transfer of fertiliser subsidies - estimated at nearly 700 billion rupees a year - directly into farmers' bank accounts to cut down leakages in the system.
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Edwin said the first phase of the 1.5 million tonne capacity fertiliser plant, on the same Lagos state site, would be completed in September and start operating in December.
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ABUJA, March 6 (Reuters) - Nigerian fertiliser maker Notore plans to seek shareholder approval this month for a 40 billion naira ($131 mln) capital raise, the company said on Friday.
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A rural businessman selling liquid soap and fertiliser decided to expand into solar lights, water filters and cooking stoves after his mentor prodded him to look for unmet needs.
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The company has in the last two decades expanded joint ventures with Indian and Japanese firms seeking investment opportunities overseas to secure requirements to meet fast growing fertiliser demand.
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The terminal is expected to spur industrial growth in the area with the re-gasified LNG to be distributed to power generation plants, fertiliser plants and other industrial units.
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The case started in 2011 when Yara, one of the world's biggest nitrate fertiliser makers, contacted Norwegian authorities, saying it had uncovered cases of corruption dating to prior to 2008.
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" U.S. AWASTHI, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INDIAN FARMERS FERTILISER COOPERATIVE LIMITED, NEW DELHI: "Fertilizer consumption will improve in 2016/17 season, especially due to better demand for winter-sown crops like wheat.
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Polyhalite can be used as a fertiliser but it is largely untested and so far Sirius's rival Israel Chemicals (ICL) is the only company to have begun mining the mineral.
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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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They will be offered crop-yield insurance, sold with seeds and fertiliser, under the government's Farmer Input Support Programme, which subsidises the cost of inputs to small-scale maize-producers.
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Quantum computers may eventually crunch through currently unapproachable problems, improving the transmission of electric power or the manufacture of energy-intensive fertiliser, or simply sifting through impracticably large data sets.
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To put that into perspective, the United Nations Development Programme says that the costs of overfishing and fertiliser run-off amount to some $50bn and $200bn-800bn a year, respectively.
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But it takes 22014,236 pounds (0003 tonnes) of the stuff to prepare an acre of land for sowing season, compared with just 2000 pounds of chemical fertiliser for conventional crops.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk cargoes including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, was down 23 points, or 2049 percent, at 373 points.
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Earlier on Wednesday ICL reported higher fourth-quarter revenue and profit, beating expectations as potash prices rose and expenses fell at the world's sixth-largest producer of the fertiliser ingredient.
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Floods in Queensland in February had forced the company to shut fertiliser plants at its Phosphate Hill facility after it was cut off by the closure of a railway line.
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India's industrial gas consumers such as power plants and fertiliser makers were disappointed in 2010 after promised gas output from the east coast's Krishna-Godavari basin fell short of expectations.
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Farmers' groups have been demanding better monsoon forecasts, bigger fertiliser subsidies and a state-funded insurance scheme for all crops, to help farmers improve yields and help prevent crop failures.
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Turns out that what is referred to as "human sewage sludge-derived fertiliser" could be having a direct impact on mammalian reproduction—not just in farm animals, but in humans.
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Indicated unchanged K+S said on Wednesday that finance chief Burkhard Lohr will become chief executive next year, replacing Norbert Steiner who has run the fertiliser maker for a decade.
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The minerals company K+S said on Wednesday it would sell its salt business in North and South America to slash its debt pile and focus on potash fertiliser products.
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The company, a unit of Singapore-based petrochemical producer Indorama, is seeking to double annual output of urea fertiliser from 1.4 million tonnes to 2.8 million tonnes, the statement said.
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Omnia, which has been battling high debt after raising funds for two acquisitions and the construction of a fertiliser plant, raised 2 billion rand ($130 million) through a rights issue.
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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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Brokers Pareto Securities, which have a buy recommendation on Yara's stock, said fertiliser prices were also likely to rise and this could help the company overcome the gas price pressure.
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State resources would be better spent on research, on tackling counterfeit seeds—a big problem in many countries—or on educating farmers about how to use improved seeds and fertiliser.
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Both the fertiliser business and the carved-out industrials unit would benefit from the greater flexibility, and could see significant growth opportunities as a result of a split, he added.
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There might also (though she did not measure this) be a bonus reduction in the amount of phosphorus-based fertiliser a farmer needs to deploy in addition to nitrogen-based pellets.
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ICL, the world's sixth-largest producer of fertiliser ingredient potash, said it was launching a tender to buy back $800 million worth of 4.5 percent debt due in 2024 from bondholders.
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However, Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara fell 2.7 percent after posting fourth-quarter core profit below expectations, hit by lower sales and an impairment related to its plants in France and Trinidad.
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Other pollution takes a greater toll on the seas—fertiliser run-off can cause damage worth $200bn-800bn a year, compared with $403bn for marine plastic litter, according to one estimate.
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Crutzen's group talks of the post-1950 period as the "Great Acceleration", when a range of factors -- from human population numbers, to disposable plastics, to nitrogen fertiliser -- began to increase exponentially.
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Fertiliser and pesticide maker Nufarm Ltd slashed earnings guidance on Monday as the dry cut demand, while the country's biggest bulk grain hander, Graincorp Ltd, made a profit warning in May.
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Its bottom line was dented by a A$105.6 million writedown on its Gibson Island plant, reflecting a slide in fertiliser prices and rising gas input costs on Australia's east coast.
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The company hopes to strike a good deal for what is a profitable business but which does not fit its overall fertiliser strategy of having multiple ties with farmers, he said.
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Explosives and fertiliser maker Incitec Pivot Ltd gained 3.7 percent after it reported an 11 percent rise in half-year underlying profit on Tuesday as cost cuts offset weak commodity prices.
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Indian companies could sign contracts for another 3 million tonnes in the next few weeks, if other suppliers offer the same price, said an official with a Mumbai-based fertiliser company.
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However, Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara fell 2 percent after posting fourth-quarter core profit below expectations, hit by lower sales and an impairment related to its plants in France and Trinidad.
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But the increasing fragmentation of land amid the rocketing increase in population is plainly unsustainable, even though productivity has risen fast through government-provided inputs such as fertiliser and better seed.
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DUBAI, June 15 (Reuters) - Libya's state oil firm NOC said on Saturday it had restored natural gas supply to the Libya Norwegian fertiliser company (Lifeco), allowing factory operations to resume shortly.
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Keen to do something productive with this noxious by-product, he invested in several state of the art digesters that could transform the excrement into fertiliser and methane gas for electricity.
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The fertiliser purchases would be outside the kingdom and cover ammonia, urea and specialty urea products, Yousef Abdullah al-Benyan said in an interview on the sidelines of a news conference.
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Its futures contracts for rapeseed meal, rapeseed oil, skimmed milk, unsalted lactic butter, sweet whey food grade powder, nitrogen fertiliser solution and wood pellets are little traded, or not at all.
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Sources told Reuters in October that Sinochem and ChemChina were in discussions about a possible merger to create a chemicals, fertiliser and oil giant with almost $100 billion in annual revenue.
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The Times Sirius Minerals Plc has recommended a 63 million pound ($26 million) takeover by Anglo American PLc as the "only feasible option" to save its North Yorkshire fertiliser mine. bit.
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The Herald said the government would start delivering seed, fertiliser and crop chemicals to farmers around the country between July and September, ahead of the planting season that begins in November.
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By the early 1960s scientists had created dwarf varieties of rice and wheat, which put more of their energy into edible bits and did not topple over when fed with fertiliser.
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Many local people have invested in the plan to tunnel under England's North York Moors to exploit what Sirius says is the world's largest deposit of polyhalite, a multi-nutrient fertiliser.
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Efekto manufactures and sells home and garden pesticides, fertiliser and plant food products and Afrikelp specialises in natural growth stimulants extracted from seaweed to improve the quality and quantity of agricultural crops.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 26 (Reuters) - Omnia Holdings, a South African chemicals and fertiliser maker, reported a 12 percent rise in full-year profit on Tuesday, boosted by improved performance in its agriculture business.
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Not only is it hosting the next round of UN climate negotiations in November, it is also one of the world's largest producers of phosphorus (a raw material used to make fertiliser).
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Coal India and NTPC, a power utility, have been asked to revive two defunct fertiliser plants, in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh, for example, largely on the grounds that they have spare cash.
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JERUSALEM, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Fertiliser producer Israel Chemicals (ICL) reported a smaller than expected drop in fourth-quarter profit and revenue on Wednesday, helped by its speciality products and record potash sales.
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Chief executive Gonzalo Ramirez Martiarena said last month that it was starting with its fertiliser business, with plans to find partners next year, after selling off the African part of the business.
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MOSCOW, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Russian fertiliser producer Phosagro is considering a Eurobond issue of around $500 million and may chose February for the deal, Chief Executive Andrey Guryev told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Combining the two companies, which make everything from refined oil products to latex gloves and insecticides, would propel it into the top echelons of the competitive global chemicals, fertiliser and oil industries.
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Quantum simulators might help in the design of room-temperature superconductors allowing electricity to be transmitted without losses, or with investigating the nitrogenase reaction used to make most of the world's fertiliser.
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For example, little of the fertiliser industry's capacity used advanced technologies in 2011; most of the new capacity added since then has been the modern sort that is 40% cheaper to operate.
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Nigeria's system became so corrupt that in 21998 the agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, estimated that as little as 22014% of subsidised fertiliser was actually getting to small farmers at the subsidised price.
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The decline, which is likely to continue this year, should allow prices for key fertiliser diammonium phosphate (DAP) to stabilise at last year's levels of around $703-$350 a tonne, Guryev said.
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Consumers have not had the cash needed to complete purchases, and there have been reports of supply chains being disrupted and farmers unable to buy seeds and fertiliser for the sowing season.
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K+S said earlier on Wednesday it would sell the business, which accounts for more than a third of group sales, to slash its debt pile and focus on potash fertiliser products.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 26 (Reuters) - South African chemicals and fertiliser maker Omnia Holdings reported a half-year profit on Tuesday boosted by its mining division, despite difficult trading conditions in its agricultural business.
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On the upside, chemical and fertiliser company Omnia Holdings soared 11.79% on the blue-chip index after announcing it would evaluate returns from its business units and look at cost-cutting measures.
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If Facebook thought that it could make more money out of you by throwing you in a garden shredder and turning you into fertiliser it would do so in half a heartbeat.
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Manufacturers, including explosives and fertiliser maker Incitec Pivot Ltd, prompted the investigation, saying they were having difficulty lining up long-term gas supplies beyond 2016, which coincided with the start of LNG exports.
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Birol said the time was right to scale up technologies and bring down costs to allow hydrogen, now used mostly in oil refining and for fertiliser production, to be taken up more widely.
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"Next year I will need fertiliser but I won't have any money now until December 2019," said John Hatty, a grain farmer in Tocumwal, some 700 km (480 miles) south west of Sydney.
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Digging wells, giving out seeds and fertiliser and providing safe pasture for herders are among the inducements offered by Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), which split from Nigeria's Boko Haram in 2016.
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Indicated 0.2 percent higher The potash company is pondering smaller strategic changes in its fertiliser business as well as steps to improve its IT infrastructure, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing executive Otto Lose.
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The fertiliser maker reported net income of 28.1142 million Norwegian crowns ($86 million), down from 3 billion a year earlier and well short of the 1.21 billion forecast by analysts polled by Reuters.
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BAKU, May 29 (Reuters) - The only fertiliser plant in Azerbaijan has reached its full annual capacity of 650,000 tonnes and started to export carbamide this month, the head of SOCAR Carbamid told Reuters.
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Sadly, fertiliser subsidies persist, minimum crop prices have jumped again, and the new bankruptcy system will take about six years to clear the backlog of cases at its present pace, reckons Mr Subramanian.
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Fertiliser producers, a major industrial user of natural gas in China, typically face energy shortages during the winter heating season that starts in November because the government prioritises gas supply to residential users.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug 21 (Reuters) - South African chemicals and fertiliser maker Omnia Holdings said on Wednesday its chief executive officer Adriaan de Lange has resigned and will be replaced by the current group finance director.
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The crisis eased over the past month after the government ordered big gas users like fertiliser makers to suspend operations to move supplies north, and reversed a ban on coal heating for some cities.
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A deal to sell its 50 percent holding in chemical fertiliser producer Ibn Al-Bayttar to affiliate Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co. is currently being evaluated by SAFCO and other moves are in the pipeline.
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But fertiliser, on which about half of the world's food production now relies, costs money and (a more modern worry) is manufactured using a lot of fossil fuel in the form of natural gas.
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DAR ES SALAAM, May 20 (Reuters) - Tanzania said on Friday it plans to start building a $3 billion fertiliser factory in partnership with a consortium of investors from Germany, Denmark and Pakistan this year.
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These investments are part of a strategy to boost phosphate-based fertiliser use and production in Africa where there is potential to boost consumption five-fold from about 5 million tonnes currently, he said.
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The Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), which owned 70% of the country's milling capacity at its peak as well as providing its smallholder members with loans and cheap fertiliser, went bust in 2009.
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A strike would immediately have idled aluminium smelters, fertiliser plants, ship yards and chemical factories, and could eventually have been extended to hit output of oil and gas, unions said ahead of the talks.
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NEW DELHI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Russia's Phosagro will supply 2 million tonnes of fertiliser to India worth $1 billion the company said in a joint statement with Russia's RDIF sovereign wealth fund on Friday.
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Like many other Russian exporters, Phosagro, which competes with U.S. firm Mosaic, has been helped by rouble weakness, which holds down its costs in dollar terms and partially offsets a decline in fertiliser prices.
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As for the fertiliser carbamide (urea), which is expected to be produced at a plant in the city of Sumgait in 2019, exports will focus on Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece, Israel and Italy.
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The smelter, which has been shut for about three months, annually produces about a million tonnes of sulphuric acid, a corrosive byproduct of copper smelting used as a raw material by the fertiliser industry.
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"Traditional beverages like beer and whiskey are produced from cereals which do require quite a lot of artificial fertiliser," said Graeme Walker, professor of zymology at Abertay University, who supervised the pea gin project.
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MOSCOW, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia-focused fertiliser producer Eurochem said on Wednesday it had signed an $800 million pre-export finance facility with international banks, to be used to refinance part of its debt.
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The government has previously said that supply to industry would be curbed, but Monday's announcement - covering makers of products such as chemicals, methanol and fertiliser - gives an indication of the targetted size of such cuts.
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The company announced plans in June to spin off its non-fertiliser business, which generates 10%-15% of annual profits, in a bid to reduce the sprawl in its product range and boost growth prospects.
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On Friday police arrested Charles Ongwae, managing director of the Kenya Bureau of Standards'(KEBS), and the other officials after finding that the fertiliser imported from Morocco was approved for sale despite failing KEBS's standards.
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In Qatar, the index dropped 0.3 percent as petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer Industries Qatar fell 1.4 percent after posting a 28.9 percent drop in third-quarter net profit to 759.7 million riyals ($208.7 million).
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Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, takes a similar view, even though he pioneered the use of mobile-phone wallets to distribute fertiliser subsidies in a previous role as Nigeria's agriculture minister.
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"Considering the reduced subsidy, we will negotiate with suppliers to try to get potash at the lowest price for Indian farmers," U.S. Awasthi, managing director of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd, the biggest producer, said.
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"Whereas the wheat is the output for Rouen, the UAN fertiliser is the input so that gives the perfect hedge for players in the farming sector," Ulrich von Furstenberg, product manager commodities at Euronext, said.
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Fertiliser makers have been hit by low prices, with the economic downturn in Brazil, a major agricultural producer, dampening demand there and oversupply due to decisions to expand production capacity taken when prices were higher.
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Doha's main index closed up 0.5 percent at 10,331 points, with petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer Industries Qatar jumping 1.4 percent, Qatar Islamic Bank adding 1.1 percent, and Qatar National Bank (QNB) rising 0.8 percent.
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Last year One Acre Fund's large network of instructors, farmers themselves, taught some 305,000 more east African smallholders skills such as carefully spacing seeds so as to maximise productivity and measuring fertiliser using bottle caps.
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FRANKFURT, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Germany's Thyssenkrupp said it has won an order from Brunei to build a fertiliser plant in the southeast Asian state, in a much-needed boost to its struggling industrial solutions division.
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Salt and fertiliser supplier K+S warned of a significant drop in operating profit this year, citing lower potash prices and output restrictions at its German mines due to stricter regulation of waste water discharge.
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MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Russian fertiliser producer Phosagro has offered shares at 2,500-2,600 roubles each in a secondary share placement, a financial source and a source close to the placement told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara posted fourth-quarter core profit below expectations, hit by lower sales and an impairment related to its plants in France and Trinidad, the firm said in a profit warning on Friday.
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The FTSE 250 fell 0.1%, dragged lower by a collapse in the shares of fertiliser maker Sirius Minerals after the company cancelled the bond tender at the heart of a crucial project in northern England.
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MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The outbreak of a new coronavirus in China's Hubei province has struck the heart of the country's fertiliser sector, prompting a wave of orders for a small plant in southern Russia.
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OSLO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Norway's Yara, one of the world's largest fertiliser-makers, said it was starting a share buy-back programme after reporting quarterly earnings that were broadly in line with forecasts on Friday.
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The company has customers in India, Malaysia, the Middle East and Kenya, including Amazon India, Bangalore-based online supermarket Big Basket, and the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, which provides agricultural services to rural India.
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Aside from the Moheshkhali project, several others are being considered, usually combining LNG imports with onshore power plants that would use the regasified fuel as feedstock or with fertiliser complexes that are heavily gas-reliant.
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OSLO (Reuters) - A Norwegian appeals court acquitted the former chief executive of fertiliser maker Yara, Thorleif Enger, and two other former top executives in a bribery case on Friday, reversing the verdicts of a lower court.
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OSLO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Norwegian fertiliser-maker Yara reported stronger-than-expected October-December profits on Friday and said a decision on a long-planned spinoff of its industrials unit could be made by mid-2020.
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At the moment, farmers overcome the inability of most crops to fix nitrogen either by crop rotation (planting fields with legumes every few years to refresh the soil with nitrogenous compounds) or by applying artificial fertiliser.
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These included TrashIt, which is working on collecting organic waste from food vendors and turn it into fertiliser, and Good Earth, which is behind sharing platforms for farm equipment, often beyond the means of poor farmers.
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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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TEL AVIV, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Fertiliser maker Israel Chemicals (ICL) will not be bidding for an indirect stake that is for sale in Chilean potash and lithium producer SQM, a spokesman for the Israeli company said.
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Every half-hour a carefully calibrated pulse of water based on the cloud's calculations, and mixed with an appropriate dose of fertiliser if scheduled, is pushed through the tapes, delivering a precise sprinkling to each tree.
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MOSCOW, May 256.1 (Reuters) - Russian fertiliser producer Phosagro plans to boost its output by between 28.2 and 2015 percent in 0.83, it said on Wednesday, after reporting a 20.8 percent rise in first-quarter net profit.
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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 petrochemicals, metals and fertiliser producer posted 63 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit to 230 million riyals ($63.2 million); the average forecast of three analysts polled by Reuters had been for 902.7 million riyals.
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The conglomerate, whose activities include making car parts building fertiliser plants, proposed scrapping its dividend for the first time in six years, a move backed by top investor, the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation.
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OSLO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Norwegian fertiliser maker Yara International posted a 15-percent increase in core fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday as prices rose, but lagged forecasts and proposed a smaller-than-expected full-year dividend.
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This compared to a Reuters survey forecasting January end-stocks to tumble around 12% to 1.76 million tonnes, their lowest since June 2017, as dry weather and lower fertiliser usage in Malaysia early last year curbed yields.
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POTASSIUM PREDICAMENT Belgorkhimprom, a state-owned company from fellow autocratic ex-Soviet republic Belarus - the world's third-biggest producer of potash fertiliser - said last month it had filed a lawsuit for more than $150 million against Turkmenistan.
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NAIROBI, June 25 (Reuters) - A Kenyan magistrate's court on Monday charged the head of the state-run standards body, seven other officials and two businessmen with attempted murder for allowing the importation of substandard fertiliser containing mercury.
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From there the oil will be transferred to smaller tankers, then to the vast infrastructure that can refine and transport it until it reaches consumers in the form of fertiliser, plastic bottles, polyester or, most likely, petrol.
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The so-called UAN 30 Nitrogen Fertiliser Solution contract will be based on urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution and physically deliverable in Rouen, northern France, which is also a delivery point for Euronext's flagship milling wheat contract .
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Joe DeVries of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, based in Kenya, says that by raising the prospect of higher yields, these seeds persuade farmers to spend money and time on fertiliser, weeding and pesticides.
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For the less fussy, Rowbot Systems of Minneapolis is developing a bot that can travel between rows of partly grown maize plants, allowing it to apply supplementary side dressings of fertiliser to the plants without crushing them.
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The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping dry bulk cargoes including iron ore, cement, grain, coal and fertiliser, fell for the 22th straight session and was down six points, or 2952 percent, at 363 points.
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BOND FAILS: Sirius Minerals scrapped a plan to raise $163 million through a bond sale, sending its shares more than 50% lower and delaying a project to mine for fertiliser under a national park in northern England.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU merger process: — Fertiliser company Uralchem to acquire sole control of Russian potash producer Uralkali (approved Aug.
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RenCap helped to arrange three out of Russia's six Eurobond issues so far this year, including a $300 million deal for Sovcombank, one of Russia's leading private banks, and a $500 million issue for fertiliser producer Phosagro.
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The project is expected to produce 2.5 million tonnes of fertiliser in its first phase by 2022, and a second phase would see a further $1.3 billion invested to increase production to 73 million tonnes three years later.
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One bright spot was explosives and fertiliser maker Incitec Pivot, which jumped as much as 12 percent, its biggest gain since November 2008, after its first-half underlying profit beat expectations, despite warning that it faced tough markets.
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TEL AVIV, May 10 (Reuters) - Israel Chemicals (ICL) on Thursday reported higher revenue and profit for the first quarter, boosted by a capital gain and increased potash sales at the world's sixth-largest producer of the fertiliser ingredient.
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It follows in the footsteps of the Bhutan, located on the eastern side of the Himalayas, which has been phasing out the use of agricultural chemicals since 2011 in an attempt to become entirely pesticide- and fertiliser-free.
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This is particularly important given that according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, 124kg of artificial fertiliser is used worldwide per hectare of farmland on average each year, while in Africa the amount used is just 15kg.
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"Diesel and fertiliser prices have shot up but paddy and wheat prices rose only marginally," said Prem Naryan Meena, a 22013-year-old wheat farmer in Gudari Ghat village on the outskirts of Madhya Pradesh's state capital Bhopal.
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Applying ever more men with hoes to the cultivation of a field will generate diminishing returns in terms of crop yields, for instance; wringing more from the soil eventually requires the use of better seed-stock or fertiliser.
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The group has launched a sale process for its African fertiliser business and expects to conclude a deal within six months, he said, adding that the sale has attracted potential buyers but not yet led to exclusive talks.
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For example, she reckons that a thorough analysis of the energy-intensive nitrogenase reaction to make fertiliser would take a 100-logical-qubit quantum computer hours or perhaps days, whereas a conventional supercomputer would need billions of years.
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Experts debate the reasons for decline—a combination of coffee rust, warmer weather, and increases in fertiliser prices are all to blame—but there's no getting away from the fact that coffee output has dwindled in recent years.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 29 (Reuters) - South African chemicals and fertiliser maker Omnia Holdings reported a 13 percent drop in half-year profit on Tuesday hit by slack demand for some core products due to drought and weak economic growth.
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A look at the physical building blocks of the American economy—metals, minerals, wood, paper, fertiliser, water and energy—indeed suggests that in many cases their absolute usage has peaked in recent decades, even as GDP has soared.
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MACHAKOS, Kenya, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For the past two years, Beatrice Ndavi, a 56-year-old farmer in central Kenya, has received vouchers for good-quality seeds and fertiliser, as well as training to improve her yields.
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"We've been living a hand-to-mouth existence for a very long time but rising prices of seeds, diesel and fertiliser and falling prices of milk, fruits, vegetables and even staples is the last straw," said farmer Shivpal Yadav.
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The Ennore terminal, which will be India's fifth, is expected to spur industrial growth in the area with the re-gasified LNG to be distributed to power generation plants, fertiliser plants and other industrial units, according to the website.
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OSLO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Norwegian fertiliser maker Yara sees a lot of uncertainty on prices for its products and input factors in the time ahead despite less capacity coming into the market, its chief executive told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Phosagro, which competes with other global fertiliser producers such as U.S. firm Mosaic, hopes the new supply deal will make it more competitive in the Indian market, which has huge potential for further consumption growth, the Russian company said.
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Indicated 0.4 percent lower The potash miner's quarterly operating profit slumped 37 percent from a year earlier, hurt by lower prices of the fertiliser mineral and temporary environmental restrictions which it said might also weigh on full-year earnings.
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The Indian cabinet on Wednesday slashed subsidies for potash-based fertiliser by more than 10 percent for the next fiscal year beginning April 1, as the world's leading importer of the crop nutrient tries to contain a fiscal deficit.
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Dry weather and lower fertiliser use - a move adopted by some growers to save costs - have affected output this year at top producers Indonesia and Malaysia, and will continue to be a factor in the coming years, Fry said.
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Incitec Pivot also cited increased gas costs at the Gibson island fertiliser plant in Queensland for the lower guidance, months after it said it had lined up an affordable gas supply deal to keep the plant running through 2022.
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Standard Chartered's Hong Kong brokerage unit, previously called Cazenove Asia Ltd, acted in only two IPOs in 2009, the $216 million listing of timber company China Forestry Holdings Co Ltd and China XLX Fertiliser Ltd, according to stock exchange data.
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At least a dozen petrochemical, fertiliser and refinery projects, with combined capacity to produce more than 5 million tonnes a year of products, have hit the buffers or been delayed due to water supply problems, according to a Reuters assessment.
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An hour or so before violence broke out, Elmar Brok, the chief EU observer, listed the ways in which Zanu-PF had sought to sway the vote, from handing out food, seed and fertiliser in rural areas to threats of violence.
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Juno Bio is "unlocking the potential of the microbiome" (bacteria that lives in our guts and other places, such as animals and soil), which the startup says has unprecedented potential to disrupt various industries such as the $195 billion fertiliser industry.
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BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned chemical companies Sinochem Group and ChemChina are in discussions about a possible merger to create a chemicals, fertiliser and oil company with almost $100 billion annual revenue, three sources familiar with the matter said.
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But it has not lost what analysts describe as its "saviour complex", a desire to address national shortcomings through managerial talent and a balance-sheet plumped by sales of $633m-worth of stakes in its fertiliser-and-food businesses in 2016.
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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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Trafigura, which plans to develop a floating LNG import terminal in Pakistan and Britain, delayed agreeing terms with Bangladesh for a project to supply fertiliser producer Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Co. via a floating import facility the Karnaphuli river, the official said.
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LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Cleartrade Exchange is expanding its commodities business, aiming to boost fertiliser and bunker fuel derivatives activity after a lukewarm reception for its dry freight futures, partly due to turmoil in the shipping market, a top official said.
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"Low or no fertiliser application in the first half of 21 plus dry weather... and the lower planting of new areas will combine to give us production growth of just 24.1430 million tonnes," he said, referring to output in Indonesia.
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MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Russian businessman Andrei Melnichenko, who controls Russia-focused fertiliser producer Eurochem, sees no issues with banks and their compliance after his inclusion on the U.S. list of so-called "oligarchs", he told reporters in Moscow on Friday.
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KIEV, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Prime Minister blamed the State Property Fund for the failure of a second attempt to sell a state-owned fertiliser plant in Odessa, seen as a test of a Western-backed push for privatisation and reform.
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Among other Norwegian companies, state-controlled telecoms group Telenor got an "A minus" for climate change reporting in 2017, while aluminium producer Hydro and fertiliser-maker Yara International, in which the state owns just over a third, got "C"s.
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BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - A Chinese fertiliser firm, Hubei Yihua Chemical Industry Co, halted production at a plant in northern China because of insufficient natural gas supply, the company said in a statement filed to the Shenzhen stock exchange on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (Reuters) - South African chemicals and fertiliser maker Omnia Holdings said on Friday it expected to report a full-year loss as drought, a volatile currency, changes in the mining industry and difficult global trading conditions weighed on earnings.
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Representatives from oil firm Equinor, fertiliser-maker Yara and aluminium producer Norsk Hydro, in which the Norwegian state is the top owner, attended a meeting on Tuesday with Climate and Environment Minister Ola Elvestuen to discuss the fires in the Amazon.
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The former Soviet republic opened a $1 billion Belarussian-built potash plant last month, aiming to export an annual 1.2 million tonnes of fertiliser to China and India as part of its drive to diversify away from natural gas exports.
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"LifeCo shareholders have agreed on a number of measures to restore operational continuity and protect jobs, including the restoration of gas supply and NOC assuming control of the marketing of ammonia and urea fertiliser products," NOC said in a statement.
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SINGAPORE, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Singaporean commodity trader Olam International said on Friday it will sell its sugar, rubber, wood products and fertiliser businesses and other assets to release $1.6 billion of cash to reinvest as part of a six-year strategic plan.
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Last year, Zimbabwe was hit by a devastating drought that left millions in need of food aid, but the government said above average rains and state-funded farming inputs like fertiliser and seed had lifted maize output to 2.1 million tonnes this year.
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For decades governments have showered them with perks including a blanket tax exemption; subsidies on fertiliser, seeds, energy and water for irrigation; low-interest loans; cheap crop insurance; high tariffs to block food imports; and price supports for more than 20 crops.
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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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But Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co rose 1.2 percent after it and Saudi Basic Industries said they had hired investment banks to advise on the potential sale of a stake in the Ibn Al-Baytar fertiliser company, a 50-50 joint venture between them.
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The results were driven by lower fertiliser prices, with average urea and nitrate fertilizer prices down around 25 percent, but were offset by the appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the Norwegian crown and the 33 percent lower cost of gas, Yara said.
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Extending to the smallholders and subsistence farmers of Africa and Asia the best of today's agricultural practices, in such simple matters as how much fertiliser to apply and when, would get humanity quite a long way towards a requisite 70% increase in output.
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RIYADH, April 19 (Reuters) - Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) is seeking acquisitions to strengthen its fertiliser business and could announce purchases in the chemicals and polymers sectors by the end of the third quarter, its acting chief executive told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Dutch fertiliser and chemicals company OCI spiked 9.6 percent after EFG-Hermes lifted its rating on the stock to "buy", saying that a steep share price pullback was unjustified and it believed that the stock offered a solid long-term growth opportunity.
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In an agreement signed during a visit to India by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, Phosagro and Indian Potash Ltd (IPL) along with RDIF also agreed to consider investment projects in the fertiliser sector, including the construction of infrastructure and technology.
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"The study highlights potential risks associated with the common practice of grazing livestock on pastures on which human sewage sludge-derived fertiliser has been used," Dr. Richard Lea—of the University of Nottingham and lead author of the study—said in a statement.
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Dry weather and lower fertiliser use - a move adopted by some growers to save costs - have affected output this year at top producers Indonesia and Malaysia, and will continue to be a factor in the coming years, Fry said at an industry conference.
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LONDON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Sirius Minerals said on Wednesday its board was unanimous in recommending shareholders vote for Anglo American's bid to acquire its fertiliser project in northern England and if the deal failed there was a high risk the business would fail.
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Falling stockpiles and tighter production due to dry weather and lower fertiliser usage by top producers Indonesia and Malaysia in early 2019 have boosted palm prices by over 45% since Oct 2019 to hover above 3,050 ringgit, its highest in three years.
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First information packages on Plant Technology, which builds cement, fertiliser and chemical plants, will be sent out by the end of next week, the people said, adding the unit may end up being sold off in parts to several buyers, the people said.
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Indian Potash Limited and Kisan International Trading FZE, a subsidiary of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO), bought the stake in Jordan's largest mining and chemical company from Kamil Holdings Limited, owned by the Brunei Investment Agency, the exchange said in a statement.
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KIEV, July 15 (Reuters) - Ukraine's State Property Fund (SPF) vowed on Friday to complete the privatization of a key fertiliser plant this year, even though investment experts have said that an auction due to be held later this month might not make the reserve price.
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IEDs are now being produced on a "quasi-industrial scale" by the militant group, which uses both industrial components that are regulated and widely available equipment such as fertiliser chemicals and mobile phones, according to Conflict Armament Research (CAR), which undertook the 20-month study.
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K+S, which is also grappling with falling fertiliser prices in the industry, has said it will achieve only the lower end of its full-year profit guidance if it does not soon receive permits to inject wastewater, generated in the manufacturing process, underground.
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Indian Potash Ltd (IPL), one of that country's biggest fertiliser importers, is buying around 600,4903 tonnes of potash at $227 per tonne on a cost and freight (CFR) basis with a credit period of 180 days, said the industry sources, who declined to be named.
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The biggest challenge is likely to be in rural regions, which not only lack the infrastructure to deal with conventional trash, but also have to handle fertiliser, pesticide and feed waste, as well as the plastic mulch used in the countryside to boost yields.
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But Saudi Basic Industries gained 0.9 percent after it and Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Co (SAFCO) said they had hired investment banks to advise on the potential sale of a stake in the Ibn Al-Baytar fertiliser company, a 50-50 joint venture between them.
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EARTH movers, fertiliser, artificial limbs, uranium, rickshaws, hotels, textiles, tea, mutual funds, petrol, broadband, pills, coal, fighter jets, sex toys and much more beside: the range of products and services purveyed by Indian state-owned firms would put even the most sprawling of conglomerates to shame.
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Fertiliser-maker Nutrien had been excluded from the fund in 2011 following an assessment of the risk of violations of fundamental ethical norms related to the company's operations in Western Sahara, a contested territory between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario since Spain left in 1974.
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The second source said a deal would benefit both companies: Sinochem's upstream oil and gas assets could feed ChemChina's nine refineries, Sinochem's access to rubber trading would help ChemChina's tyre business, while Sinochem's dominance in fertiliser markets would be a good fit for ChemChina's agri-chemical business.
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The reason is simple: obsessed with the farming vote and guided by fears of famine that are absurdly outdated for a country that is now a big net exporter of food, the government subsidises inputs such as power and fertiliser and guarantees farmers a plum price.
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Khalaf said the system allowed him to more than triple fruit and vegetable production to over 15 tonnes per day Khalaf said his greenhouses are attracting investors looking at farming for the first time, drawn partly by increased subsidies for power, fertiliser and seeds since 2018.
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EuroChem, the Switzerland-based fertiliser maker owned by Russian industrialist Andrei Melnichenko, signed a "take-or-pay" deal in June to buy up to 100 percent of output from Danakali's Colluli mine and a minimum of 87 percent for 10 years, provided production starts before July 2022.
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This partly explains why the government of Hesse in 2015 staunchly backed fertiliser-maker K+S in its successful defence against Canadian rival Potash Corp.. Long-reaching job guarantees for Deutsche Boerse's staff in Frankfurt, as well as binding investment commitments, may not be enough to overcome these concerns.
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On a hillside about an hour north of Nairobi, David Twara points to his coffee bushes and explains how simple changes to the way he farms, such as carefully applying fertiliser from a plastic bottle top and pruning back old stems, has increased his output by about 50%.
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Farmers usually begin sowing wheat, the nation's biggest rural export, in late April, but this year they are trying to minimise expenditure on items such as fertiliser, herbicides and pesticides amid the threat of a second-straight crop failure following the hottest summer in records going back to 1910.
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Indian Potash Ltd (IPL), one of the country's biggest fertiliser importers, will buy 125,000 tonnes of potash at $227 per tonne on a cost and freight (CFR) basis with a credit period of 180 days, said the officials, who declined to be named as the contract has not been officially announced.
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"Transnet has taken a decision to reduce staff in some of the terminals with the exception of operations for Agri-bulk products namely; soya bean meal, fertiliser and woodchips, which will be serviced on single berths operation at East-London, Richards Bay and Durban Agri terminals," Transnet said in a statement.
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It has slowed operations; eventually it would have to fill in and cap its shafts and close off the mile that it has already dug of a 23-mile-long tunnel to carry the polyhalite to Teesside to be processed and shipped off as "Poly4" to fertiliser firms around the world.
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From 1976 he took shared command of the Irish Republican Army, groomed its volunteers, organised its bloody campaigns, improved its weaponry (from fertiliser stuffed in milk churns to surface-to-air missiles from Libya) and played the alternately shifting or immovable hard man in talks, or back-channel manoeuvres, with the British government.
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Indian Potash Ltd (IPL), one of the country's biggest fertiliser importers, will buy around 600,000 tonnes of potash at $227 per tonne on a cost and freight (CFR) basis with a credit period of 180 days, said the officials, who declined to be named as the contract has not been officially announced.
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This does not mean that three decades from now Swedes must emit no planet-heating substances; even if all their electricity came from renewables and they only drove Teslas, they would presumably still want to fly in aeroplanes, or use cement and fertiliser, the making of which releases plenty of carbon dioxide.
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"I would normally have bought about 100 tonnes of (fertiliser and crop protection) product by now, but there has been no rain, we have no soil moisture, so I haven't purchased any this year," said Tom Woolaston, a grains and livestock farmer in Somerton, around 13 km (275 miles) northwest of Sydney.
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The state Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) said on Thursday new projects, which could include fertiliser and power plants as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) export sites, that generate more than 100,000 tonnes per year of carbon dioxide would be required to buy credits to offset their emissions in order to pass the authority's assessment process.
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In one or more of India's 29 states, it had been mooted as a requirement for access to subsidised grain, cooking gas, free school lunches, welfare payments, government pensions, public health care, fertiliser subsidies, scholarships, fellowships and rehabilitation from sex trafficking; to get a birth or death certificate, buy railway tickets, move large sums of money, file taxes, or buy and sell property.
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Tangible facts do exist: kelp growth is explosive, and plants can enlarge by 2cm a day, which makes it a potentially plentiful (and sustainable) biofuel; kelp is also a source of iodine, and can be used to treat radiation sickness; burnt kelp was used as fertiliser in Ireland; and undersea kelp forests, like one on the coast of Tasmania, are under threat of vanishing completely.
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