With the conflict between Russia and Ukraine the price of nitrogenous fertilizers observes an increase of between 100% and 180%, in the case of urea and ammonia, compared to last year; and to this problem are added the symptoms of shortages and the great difficulty will be to obtain the product, warned the agricultural analyst Marcel Morales Ibarra.
Russia is the main supplier of nitrogenous fertilizers from Mexico, but the exorbitant increase in price has led to a drastic reduction in the use of this input in food production. “This already reflects a drop of around 30% in fertilizer imports in 2021, compared to 2020, and with the upward trend in costs in January and February of this year, it will continue to decline,” the specialist anticipated.
He is also director of XXI Century Biofactory stated that, given the price of nitrogenous fertilizers In the international market, where urea is above 900 dollars per ton and ammonia at 1,500 dollars, between 20,000 and 30,000 pesos, respectively, many small and medium producers are reducing the fertilization dose on their plots from 30% to 50%. %; even, there are many who no longer sowed.
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