Analysing the world potash industry

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“…al Rawashdeh and Maxwell (2014); e.g. Newman (1948) discusses the role of the German potassium cartel in the Nazi economy).…”

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Did the Fertilizer Cartel Cause the Food Crisis?

Gnutzmann

Śpiewanowski

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…Based on the existing potash industry, from the perspective of the industrial chain, the upstream and downstream enterprises of potash are developed to form industrial clusters, which is conducive to the formation of national competitive advantages under the background of the stable scale of potash trade. China's potash industry has formed an industrial chain of "ore-based products/bulk products-downstream products", and should further upgrade related and supportive industries (Li, 2012;Rawashdeh & Maxwell, 2014). Countries should base themselves on the production of potash products, and should broaden their horizons to focus on the development of related and supportive industries.…”

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Study on the Characteristics of Potassium Salt International Trade Based on Complex Network

Wang

Kong

2019

Journal of Business Economics and Management

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This paper studies the evolutionary characteristics of international trade of potassium salts. We construct a weighted and directed complex network model of potassium salt trade, analyze the scale and activity, trade relations, trade flow distribution and the importance of trading countries using UN Comtrade2000-2016 data. Results show that potassium salt trade is more dynamic, resource allocation is more convenient. Some countries have formed trade groups. The relationship between small and major countries is growing. The resource flows of countries with large degrees are conducive to balancing resource’s distribution. Besides Canada is a leading trade country, and the US, the Russian Federation, China and Brazil are trade-led countries. China, the Netherlands, the US, France and India are important hubs. Finally, using Porter's national competitive advantage theory, it proposes countermeasures for forming the international competitive advantage of potassium salt enterprises in different countries.

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“…Historically, the K fertilizer industry has experienced major, technically innovative, changes connected to geopolitical developments (Rittenhouse 1979;Al Rawashdeh and Maxwell 2014; 2015; Al Rawashdeh et al 2016). Initially produced from wood ash, ashed kelp became important as a source of K in the early nineteenth century (as well as in the early twentieth century in the USA).…”

Section: Potassiummentioning

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Innovation in Resourcing Geological Materials as Crop Nutrients

Manning

2017

Nat Resour Res

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Mineral resources are fundamental to the growth and development of human society. Extraction of metal ores has risen very slightly as a proportion of all resources, while construction and industrial mineral extraction has grown much more rapidly. This reflects growth in GDP, which is much faster than population growth, in turn reflecting improved standards of living, growth in urban housing/infrastructure and growth in the consumer society. Fertilizer minerals in particular are essential resources for production of the food needed by an increasing global population. Nitrogen fertilizer manufacture requires fossil fuels-especially natural gas (methane) as a source of the hydrogen needed for the HaberBosch process. Phosphate fertilizers are predominantly manufactured using phosphate rock as a source of phosphoric acid, and there is scope to recover phosphorus from contaminated waters. Potassium fertilizers are produced from evaporite deposits, mainly in the global north. It is difficult for poorer countries with deeply leached soils to access and make efficient use of existing conventional products. Globally, while N and P fertilizer application replaces the nutrient removed by crops and so is in balance, twice as much K is being removed from soils as is being replaced. This leads to the need for innovation in developing novel sources of K, especially to support agricultural production in the global south. Rocks containing K silicate minerals (such as feldspar and nepheline) occur widely as potential sources of K for use in soils where these minerals weather rapidly. Observations of surface corrosion in feldspars taken from soils after 10 years exposure to soil microbial systems demonstrates rates of dissolution 4 orders of magnitude greater than determined in the laboratory. Innovation in use of these minerals depends on an understanding of the role of microbial processes in silicate mineral decomposition.

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Analysing the world potash industry

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Did the Fertilizer Cartel Cause the Food Crisis?

Did the Fertilizer Cartel Cause the Food Crisis?

Study on the Characteristics of Potassium Salt International Trade Based on Complex Network

Innovation in Resourcing Geological Materials as Crop Nutrients

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