US companies increased fertilizer purchases from Russia by 20%

In January, Russia increased fertilizer exports to the United States to the highest level since May last year.

This is reported by Russian media, citing an analysis of data from the US Census Bureau, Latifundist. reports.

Thus, since the beginning of the year, US companies have increased their purchases of Russian fertilizers by 20% in annual terms – to $85.5 million.

Mainly, nitrogen fertilizer supplies increased – by a quarter, to $66.4 million. Purchases of potash fertilizers also increased – by almost 5%, to $18.5 million in January. The US almost did not buy mixed fertilizers – it is about $613 thousand tons against 568 thousand tons previously.

The main buyers of Russian fertilizers were China, Brazil and India.

Earlier, USM reported that ARMA again put Russian fertilizers up for sale at the port of Izmail: the price was reduced by 50%.