90% of the world’s mined phosphate is used as fertilizer in ag. Morocco supplies 34% of the world’s traded phosphate rock, which is then refined in China, Vietnam and Norway, according to the EU.
Beneficiated phosphate rock is often upgraded into granular diammonium (DAP) or monoammonium phosphate (MAP), which are high-grade, water-soluble crop fertilizers. Single super phosphate (SSP ...
Synthetic phosphate fertilizer poses a serious threat to our environment. Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is ...
So excess phosphorus could be left in the soil from buckwheat plant residue. In the study, chemically untreated phosphate rock from sedimentary and igneous sources was used as replacements for ...