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Article: Slight Pickup on China's Chemical Fertilizer Market in 2001.
- Article from:
- China Chemical Reporter
- Article date:
- February 26, 2001
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Presently the supply has outstripped the demand on the chemical fertilizer market. The stocks have greatly increased with prices falling down by a big margin. The present hard situation on the fertilizer market is somewhat related with an off-season. It was predicted that the above-mentioned contradiction that the supply had exceeded the demand would possibly ease up a bit but it would be difficult to find a way out to settle it fundamentally in 2001.
The total demand for fertilizers nationwide was 36.5 million tons, the output of fertilizer in China was about 31 million tons, and the import volume was about 7.5 million tons in the year 2000. There was a surplus ...