News archive on the topic "fertilizers"

Russia has overtaken the United States to become second in the world in fertilizer production after China. President of the Russian Association of Fertilizer Manufacturers Andrei Guryev stated this at a meeting with Vladimir Putin. He emphasized that the growth in production is the result of investments in the industry over the past 10 years. “We are today the world’s largest exporter of mineral fertilizers (that is: there is...

Farmers of Crimea and neighboring Kherson and Zaporozhye regions this year will not be able to use small aircraft and drones to cultivate their fields. The good news is that after 8 years of inactivity, the Titan plant has resumed operation of its fertilizer production workshop. Now, both from the point of view of price and logistics, it will be more profitable for agricultural producers to buy Crimean produce, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "Now everything...

A number of EU member countries are calling for a review of the bloc’s sanctions against the Russian Federation and making exceptions for the supply of Russian agricultural products more clear; the current rules allegedly delay deliveries to poor countries. The influential business newspaper Financial Times writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, citing a document at its disposal. It is noted that the Netherlands, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Germany call on the European Commission to introduce...

Governor of the Primorsky Territory Oleg Kozhemyako visited Minsk for the third time this year. He met with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko and discussed ways of cooperation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Still, now the vector has changed to the east, and our ports have received a greater load. In particular, we have now sent several dozen containers to Belarusian car manufacturers. It goes through Vladivostok.…

Latvian authorities thwarted Uralchem's deal to sell the port in Riga. The head of the Uralchem ​​corporation, Dmitry Mazepin, spoke about this today at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We tried to sell after the introduction of sanctions, and we sold the port in Riga to a Swiss trader. A Swiss trader came to Latvia, introduced himself, and showed documents. We have proposed a scheme that...

Russian fertilizer producers sell their products abroad for yuan. The head of the Uralchem ​​corporation, Dmitry Mazepin, spoke about this today at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We have recently learned not to work with the euro and dollar. For example, in Brazil we already sell fertilizers in yuan. We hope that someday countries...

Without Russian mineral fertilizers, the world will face a double-digit increase in food prices in the coming years. Energy market expert, political scientist Igor Alabuzhin stated this on the PolitWera Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Alabuzhin, the most important thing here was the stopped ammonia pipeline from Togliatti in Russia to Odessa in Ukraine. “Most experts predict that next year and...

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko compared the trade in potash fertilizers under Western sanctions with the arms trade. He stated this today at a meeting in the government, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It doesn’t matter what product to sell: potassium, equipment, weapons. Although working in the potash market now will be akin to trading in weapons and other special equipment. Everything should be quiet, calm. Directions,…

Ukraine refused to import potash fertilizers from Belarus, asking to replace them with American products. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko spoke about this today in Minsk at a meeting with former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Moroz, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What your authorities are doing against Belarus cannot be analyzed at all. It boggles the mind. Now they have started to strangle our...

In the coming year, Ukraine may face food shortages caused by a shortage of fertilizers in the country. The director of the economic policy department of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine, Sergei Salivon, said this on air on the First Cossack TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the expert, Russia, which is the largest supplier of fertilizers to Ukraine, has already stopped exports and is now resolving these issues on a geopolitical basis...

If Lithuania refuses to transship Belarusian potash fertilizers, Russian ports in the Leningrad region, Murmansk and Taman can take over transshipment. It won't be more expensive. Minister of Transport and Communications of Belarus Alexey Avramenko stated this in an interview with the Belarus-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Transporters are ready to ensure the transportation of potash fertilizers in the volumes that will be necessary...

The sectoral sanctions that the EU approved on June 24 hit the most export-oriented sectors of the Belarusian economy - the production of potash fertilizers, petroleum products that Belarus distills from Russian oil, as well as tobacco products. The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports this, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. “EU companies are now prohibited from purchasing these goods or supplying the materials necessary for their production, and this...

Ukraine is economically very dependent on Belarus, and therefore Kyiv will not join Western sanctions against this country. Tatyana Zosimenko, director of the economic diplomacy program of the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”, stated this during a round table in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are extremely dependent on Belarus for a number of product groups and the implementation of joint infrastructure...

Ukraine failed to “curb” Russian imports of nitrogen fertilizers. The Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week” writes about this with regret today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The stubbornness with which, despite unprecedented protective measures, chemicals from the Russian Federation are penetrating en masse into the Ukrainian market indicates that the mineral fertilizer market has become one of the areas of conducting a hybrid war against Ukraine,” states Zerkalo Nedeli.…