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Roughly 30 percent of the world's seaborne fertiliser trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because most of the world's fertilizer flows through a handful of choke points — Russian and Belarusian potash, Moroccan phosphate, gas-linked nitrogen — so one export curb or gas spike raises fertilizer costs, cuts crop yields, and pushes food prices up fastest in poor import-dependent countries.
Part of the monitored dynamic Fertilizer Supply Security · VUCA INDEX 52/100
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INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 8
aljazeera.com — The Strait of Hormuz is now at the centre of Iranian and US calculus
"roughly 30 percent of the world’s seaborne fertiliser trade also passes through Hormuz"
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from aljazeera.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 9.
Extracted JUL 8; approved JUL 9 at 0.60.
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- FAO warned scarcity of urea and other nitrogen products will lower crop yields through the 2026-2027 growing season.
- Maharashtra Agriculture Department instructed municipal and district officials to maintain adequate supplies of quality seeds and fertilisers to prevent farmer shortages during late-stage sowing.
- India continues to import urea to meet domestic demand despite existing manufacturing capacity.
- India's Union Cabinet approved the National Investment Policy for Urea-2026 to encourage gas-based urea manufacturing and increase domestic production.
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