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The world fertilizer
crunch, which built to
epidemic proportions,
during 1973, has foqused high
interest on 'supplies
available from top fertiUzer
exporting countries such as
the Netherlands - world’s
third largest exporter of
nitrogen • fertilizer - the
principal fertilizer produced
-to about 1.19 million tons in
1974-75, compared with the
1.15 million tons exported in
1973-74. Phosphate exports
could also rise to 340,000 tons
from the previous year’s
330,000.
A large part of Dutch
nitrogen exports will go to
other West Europen coun
tries, where fertilizer use per
hectare is among the highest
in the world. Sizable
quantities are also exported
to the United States, which
took some 125,000 tons in
1973-74, Other important
purchasers last season were
the People's Republic of
China, India, Indonesia,
Brazil, and Egypt.
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The thriving Dutch fer
tilizer industry, developed
largely in the past 10-15
years, exports about 75
percent of its total output.
Some 1,87 million tons of all
types of fertilizers were
produced for agricultural
use in 1973-74, compared
with 1.81 million in 1972-73.
Fertilizer imports, totaling
some 350,000 tons annually,
are mainly of potassium
fertilizers, which are
nroduced domestically in
very small quantities.
As the 1974-75 season
began, the only Dutch fer
tilizer exports already under
contract were those to
surrounding West Europen
counties and to North
America. By contrast, ex
ports to many Asian,
African, and Latin American
Destinations are usually on a
spot-purchase, first-come
first served basis.
Before calendar 1972,
Dutch fertilizer factories
were estimated to be
operating at only 60-65
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percent of capacity. This
was the result of a large
expansion of fertilizer
production facilities 4 or 5
years ago, at the last upturn
of the fertilizer demand
cycle. When a global over
supply developed in 1972 and
world prices tumbled, Dutch
producers agreed to reduce
output.
With the onset of energy
shortages, exploding
demand, and higher profits,
producers able to
expand their output without
adding new facilities. At
present, industry sources
report that Dutch fertilizer
factories are working at
levels of between 85-90
percent of full capacity.
Operating at 100 percent of
capacity, Dutch fertilizer
plants could produce a
potential 2.25 million tons
annually. Consequently, no
new construction and
reportedly no enlargement
of present facilities are
planned for the next few
years. Since 3 ro 4 years are
required to bring a new plant
to full production, capacity is
unlikely to enlarge much
before the end of the decade.
Since production facilities
are more than adequate, the
only possible constraints on
Dutch production of certain
fertilizers would be a lack of
raw materials, especially of
phosphate rock.
More than 80 percent of
toal Dutch fertilizer
production is made up of
nitrogen fertilizer. The
Dutch produce all their
nitrogen fertilizer from
domestic supplies of natural
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gas, in contnrast to other
West European producers -
West Germany and France -
which must import raw
.materials. Natural gas
supplies are well above
industry needs, as are other
forms of energy. Although
the Arab oil embargo was
officially in effect for the
Netherlands until July 11,
Dutch petroleum imports
and stocks remain at year
ago levels.
For nitrogen fertilizer
production, imported
feedstocks include
anhydrous ammonia from
Belgium and from an af
filiated factory of a Dutch
company.
Raw matrerial shortages
could affect Dutch phosphate
fertilizer production,
however, which accounts for
about 20 percent of total
fertilizer output and is
very largely dependent on
imports of ground phosphate
rock. Thirty-three percent of
rock imports are from the
United States, 25 percent
from Togo, 24 percent from
Morocco, and 3 percent from
the Soviet Union. Basic slag
for phosphate fertilizers is
largely imported from West
Germany.
Supplies of phosphate rock
have so far been adequate,
although prices of these
materials have soared.
Prices for ground phosphate
rock from Morocco have
almost tripled in recent
months and other suppliers
There is something
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have followed with sub
stantial price rises.
Inadequate supplies of
basic slag willnot affect the
Dutch industry since these
imports are directly used as
fertilizer.. Basic slag prices
for the 1974-75 season from
Belgium and Luxembourg
increased by 27 percent and
from West Germany by 35
percent.
The Dutch produce only a
small quantity of potassium
fertilizer - 4,110 tons in 1972-
73, which was less than 1
percent of the country’s total
fertilizer output. Domestic
production is limited mainly
to potassium sulphate,
produced mostly from
oolasses. The molasses is
obtained largely from the
Dutch sugar-beet industry,
although small quantities
are imported.
According to Dutch of
ficials, large potassium
chloride deposits have been
discovered in the northern
part of the Netherlands.
Since these deposits are
reportedly at great depth, no
plans have yet been made to
exploit them. Should world
market prices rise, however,
the Dutch might decide to
open the fields, which are
said to be sufficient to meet
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Dutch fanners already use
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marginal increase or
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only about 6 percent of Dutch
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In 1973-74, Dutch con
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