Posted on 07/10/2022 4:12:43 PM PDT by Libloather
Add one more critical shortage to the world's swollen list. Countries for months have been hoarding fertilizer - and now they are weaponizing it, making sales in return for geopolitical favors.
Last July, China's National Development and Reform Commission stopped major companies from exporting fertilizer. In September, Beijing imposed a prohibition on exports of phosphates, a primary fertilizer ingredient, until at least the middle of this year. In October, Chinese officials added inspection requirements to aid enforcement of the bans. The moves were a reaction to rising prices in China and elsewhere.
China's fertilizer bans created shortages. The country's traditional customers had to search the world for alternate supply, eventually depleting other sources. "The ripple effect is that the entire world trade balance goes down, and there's just not enough out there to go around," said Josh Linville, director of fertilizer for StoneX, to Progressive Farmer.
India, for its part, blocked exports of urea - also fertilizer.
Export bans, unless short-lived, generally violate World Trade Organization rules. Beijing gets around the prohibition on export prohibitions by calling its measures "temporary."
China then figured out that it could dole out fertilizer in return for favors. It has, despite its export bans, been selling small amounts to the Philippines, which Beijing hopes to wean away from the U.S. Chinese officials are now holding out the prospect of bigger sales to Manila.
India is now wielding urea like a dagger against its Chinese foe. In the middle of last month, New Delhi confirmed it would sell Sri Lanka 65,000 metric tons of the fertilizer.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
How a fertilizer ban became a part of Sri Lanka’s Crisis
https://www.newsfirst.lk/2022/05/29/how-a-fertilizer-ban-became-a-part-of-sri-lankas-crisis/
I admit my ignorance. What keeps the US or Brazil, for example, from producing all the fertilizer it needs, from its own resources?
Hunger as a military tactic is nothing new
Well ratings for CNN, MSNBC, the J6 hearings, keep falling. We have lots of fertilizer coming out of them, but nobody is paying attention to it.
Florida has the nations largest phosphate deposits but the envirowhackos are calling for a cessation of mining due to algal blooms in local waters.
We’re going to have a self-inflicted famine.
The most effective weapons in the world are food, energy and fertilizer. We live in a new bipolar world. The western globalists are wrecking their economies to divest themselves of most their capacity to produce all three. The BRICKS+ side attracts the world’s most prolific producers of all three. I wonder who’ll dominate?
“I admit my ignorance....”
I’m just guessing but it could be US taxes, environmental laws, regulations, corporate hostility, cheap overseas labor and stuff.
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The government in March 2021 banned chemical fertilizer to conserve depleted currency reserves.
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it ordered **only** organic fertilizer could be used. It was part of the Green mind grope.
The fertilizer capitol of the world is Washington D.C. The media are the largest spreaders of that fertilizer.
“We’re going to have a self-inflicted famine.”
Perhaps inflicted by the 50% who support the CPUSA/’Rats.
The EPA.
Fertilize the fields with wood chipped envirowhackos
Biden banning natural gas fracking. Phosphate mines shut down and phosphate regs.
The price of energy is the cause.
Haber-Bosch Process is the only way known to break N2 triple bond and then reform it to NH3.
This is why after a big lightning storm, the grass and trees look so green.
Lightning has enough energy to break the N2 bond.
Biden's greenies are shutting down oil and natural gas operations. Both produce raw materials to manufacture and transport fertilizers. This has been underway since shortly after his inauguration. It is part of the overall scheme to generate a government caused famine. You are the carbon they are intent to reduce.
And Grease the Skids
Of Our Tanks !
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Patton
The EPA and the WH. The Haber-Bosch process uses natural gas as a major feedstock. Expanding these capabilities in the US isn’t happening.
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