Title: China's development strategy on potash resources and fertilizer
Abstract: Potash fertilizer consumption has increased significantly in China in the past several years,but 70% of potash fertilizer in China relays on the international market.Its rapid increasing price in international market has brought very big effects on China's market.An integrated analysis on the resource,fertilizer industry and agricultural demand is made and the developing strategy for China' potash fertilizer industry is put forward.The results present that the explored potash mines in China would be used up for 66 years,and the potash fertilizer production cannot be enlarged very fast in next few years because of the limitation of natural resources.This makes China have to regulate the utilization of resources and industrial development of potash fertilizer.By way of technological optimization and reasonable arrangement the demand for potash fertilizer in China can be controlled between 4 million to 5.5 million tons of K2O before 2015.Therefore the domestic fertilizer production can reach 55% in 2010 and 70% in 2015 by controlling farmland demand and improving reuse and compensation of K in soil,inorganic and organic fertilizers.The impact from the international market will be reduced gradually,but in a long period of time China must strengthen the exploration of potash resource,and arrange well the domestic,overseas investment and resources.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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