Last Trends on the Potassium Chloride Market: Analytics and Outlooks

Potash is an essential nutrient for plant growth and has no known substitutes. From the market side, the potash market has the most attractive characteristics of the three fertiliser sectors, robust and steadily growing demand, good visibility of supply and high barriers to entry. Moreover, potash geographically has very limited availability, relatively few top players, high profitability, high long-term pricing stability. The market size in 2010 is estimated at 47 million tonnes (28.6 million tonnes of K2O). The article describes the latest trends in the world potassium chloride market.

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