Potash Production, Consumption, and Price

Projections for the short-term consumption (Table 15.5) are from a World Bank publication summarizing the joint FAO/UNIDO/World Bank Working Group results [4j. 

Western Europe North America Russia Asia 

Projection of a given country s consumption can be made on the basis of projections of the nitrogen consumption. For a diversified crop mix one can expect that consumption of K2O should be 50% of nitrogen consumption. 

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