The African Development Bank Group has launched a financing framework of up to $5.1 billion to help African countries manage energy and fertilizer shocks, days after six multilateral development banks committed to a joint roadmap to strengthen fertilizer supply chains.
Cargill has inaugurated a fertilizer plant at its Nueva Palmira operation in Uruguay, adding capacity for fertilizer preparation and dispatch, precision blends and plant-nutrition products for Uruguayan farmers.
The August deadline for talks between the US and Iran came and went, as expected, with no resolution to the conflict. At time of writing, both sides were exchanging tit for tat attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran claiming that it would be instituting a new ‘exclusion zone’, and no sign of a diplomatic resolution in sight. With the flow of ammonia, urea and other commodities like oil, LNG and sulphur from the Gulf still slowed to a trickle, the summer of high prices and demand destruction looks set to extend well into autumn at least.
India’s Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has recommended Shri Manoharan Potheri as the new Director of Finance for state-owned Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT). Shri Potheri currently serves as Chief General Manager (Finance), Northern Region and Delhi State Office, for the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Since February 2026, the Director (Finance) position at FACT has been held by Shri S. Sakthimani, who is also Chairman and Managing Director.
Brazil’s National Association for the Diffusion of Fertilizers (ANDA) has proposed an emergency $375 million subsidy to shield farmers from soaring sulphur prices. The proposal was presented to the government during the International Brazil Congress in São Paulo on 25 August.
Brazil's Federal Senate on 11 August approved the final text of the Profert bill (PL 699/2023), which will release up to BRL 10 billion ($1.85 billion) in tax-credit subsidies over five years to build new fertilizer plants or expand and modernise existing ones.
Glasson Fertilisers is relocating its Scottish blending operation from Cobden Street to a new plant on Barrack Road in Montrose, on Scotland's north-east coast.
China's Envision Energy has signed a low-carbon ammonia environmental attribute purchase agreement with PepsiCo APAC and delivered the first 1,000 tonnes of environmental attribute certificates (EACs) linked to its Chifeng Net Zero Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia.
Industry viewpoint: Dr MP Sukumaran Nair of the Centre for Green Technology & Management (CGTM) reviews the fertilizer industry's decarbonisation options.
How will the current El Niño affect global fertilizer demand? We look back at the impact of the 2015/16 'Godzilla' event in this article from our archives.