Russian producers of mineral fertilizers have 100% fulfilled the plan of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia to provide domestic agricultural producers with mineral fertilizers, the press service reports. RAPU.
By the beginning of June, Russian farmers had purchased 3,4 million tons of mineral fertilizers (in terms of 100% of nutrients - AI). This is 12% more than in the same period last year. Thus, over 5 months, Russian producers have already provided more than 70% of the forecast demand of the agro-industrial complex for mineral fertilizers for the whole of 2022.
“According to the companies, all requests from farmers were fully satisfied, and the products were delivered just in time: spring fertilization was successfully completed, stocks for summer top dressing were formed. Today, we are waiting for a plan to purchase mineral fertilizers from the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia before the end of the year and are also ready to fulfill it in full, ”said Mr.RAPU Executive Director Maxim Kuznetsov.
He also stressed that during the sowing campaign, agricultural producers refused more than 10% of mineral fertilizers ordered earlier. “Some farmers had to redirect the funds intended for providing mineral nutrition on the eve of field work to prepayment for other elements of technology: plant protection products, equipment. Manufacturers of mineral fertilizers, in turn, did not change the sales system, which is based on the advance order of products directly from the manufacturing enterprise,” concluded Maxim Kuznetsov.