Sinaloa.- A 29 percent shortfall in fertilizers that are sued by Mexico for agricultural production represents the lack of import from Russia and Ukrainewhich will make the product more expensive than it has been since 2021.
Agustin Espinoza Lagunas, president of the Permanent Agrarian Congress (CAP) in Sinaloa, explained that the problem lies in the fact that 13 percent of nitrogenous fertilizers worldwide are produced by Russia, of which more than one million tons of nitrogenous fertilizer are demanded by Mexico in just one year, among which highlights urea and ammonia, this amount represents 29 percent of imports of fertilizers in the country.
Before the product shortage that is causing the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine due to the impossibility of removing the fertilizer from these highly producing countries in the world, Espinoza Lagunas highlighted the need for both the state and federal governments to seek mitigation measures to the contrary effects that It is going to bring war to Sinaloa, because it is a highly agricultural state.
“In fertilizers there are increases in some cases of up to 200 or 300 percent, without a doubt this was a very brutal increase, in addition to the problem of this increase, now the problem of shortages will be greater, if we already had a supply problem with The issue of the pandemic is now aggravated by the issue of conflict zones, how to get the product out of the area,” he reiterated.
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Among other adverse effects that are estimated to cause problems in the entity due to the war, he explained that in 2021 alone, Mexico bought 32 thousand tons of wheat from Russia and 192 thousand tons from Ukraine, this for not having self-sufficiency in grain, without forgetting the increase in oil that will bring a rebound in maritime and land freight, diesel, gasoline, and gas.
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