German imports of nitrogen fertilizers from Russia increased by 334% last season and amounted to about 167 thousand tons. The share of Russia in total imports in just one year increased from 5.6% to almost 18%.
This is reported by the Berliner Zeitung (BZ) with reference to the German Agricultural Industry Association.
Domestic production of chemicals has become too expensive for Germany, while there are no signs of a reduction in the cost of the process, the article notes.
Thus, the country, which last year made a lot of efforts to become independent of Russian gas supplies, now risks becoming dependent on the import of other irreplaceable raw materials from Russia, experts warn.
It is also specified that in the 2022/23 season, Russia increased the export of nitrogen fertilizers to the EU five times, bringing its share to 19%.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that work on the export of Russian food and fertilizers continues.
It also became known that the United States is increasing the purchase of Russian fertilizers, for the first quarter of this year, their imports of fertilizers from Russia more than doubled.
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