China’s major fertiliser makers to suspend exports amid tight supplies – Reuters

China’s major fertiliser makers to suspend exports amid tight supplies – Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) -Some of China’s major fertiliser companies said they would temporarily suspend exports to assure supplies in the domestic market, the state planner said on Friday, after prices in one of the world’s top grain producers hit record levels.

FILE PHOTO: A worker wearing a face mask transports fertilisers for export at a port in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China January 31, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS

China is the world’s top exporter of phosphate, and shipped 3.2 million tonnes of diammonium phosphate fertiliser in the first half of this year to major buyers such as India and Pakistan as well as 2.4 million tonnes of urea, according to customs data.