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CNA reports that Brazil
consumes 24.6 million MT of fertilizer per year. It produces 8.8 million MT. The
15.8 million MT imported costs R$14 billion. Since 1990, Brazil consumption of
fertilizers has increased an average of 7% p/yr, while the two largest consumers
(China & India) have had a rate of 5%.
Brazil imports 91 percent of
its potash needs, 49 percent of the phosphates it uses and 75 percent of its
nitrogen-based fertilizer raw materials, according to Joao Cesar de Freitas
Pinheiro, fertilizer minerals chief at the South American country’s energy
ministry. |
