The demand for fertilizer products in agriculture is extremely large and increasing, after all, fertilizer products are essential nutrients for plant growth.
Ensuring that crops grow better and agricultural yields can be increased by ensuring sufficient fertilizer application, which is very important for countries with large population bases.
For example, India, the world's most populous country, naturally attaches great importance to agriculture and fertilizer industry.
India can even produce 38 million tonnes of fertilizer per year, so how much does China, a country as populous as India, produce fertilizer?
1. India's annual output of chemical fertilizers is 38 million tons
First of all, let's take a look at India, in fact, last year, India has surpassed our country to become the world's most populous country, the domestic population is large, and it is intensive, so the domestic market demand for agricultural products is still very large.
Under such circumstances, those agricultural product development industries naturally need more fertilizer products to promote industrial development.
However, it is worth noting that the development of India's fertilizer industry does not seem to be outstanding and is still very backward.
As things stand, there are several problems with fertilizer production in India.
First of all, on the one hand, there is the problem of raw materials, although India's land area is not small, but the resource reserves are not so rich. This has also led to the extreme scarcity of some raw materials.
For example, some raw materials for the production of nitrogen fertilizer, India's local resource reserves are relatively small, and these resources have to be supplied to other industries.
In order to be able to produce nitrogen fertilizer, India can only make up for the scarcity of raw materials by importing them.
This has also led to an increase in the production cost of nitrogen fertilizer, and the yield will naturally not go up.
In addition, there is also the problem of industrial structure, in fact, most of the fertilizer manufacturers in India are foreign-funded enterprises, not local enterprises in India.
There is no way around it, after all, India has only been implementing comprehensive economic reforms since the 90s of the last century.
After that, the control of the industrial foreign trade and the financial sector was relaxed, and although the total economic volume of India grew rapidly, a relatively complete system was formed in various industries, and basic self-sufficiency was achieved.
However, we have to admit that India's current industrial development is still in a relatively backward state.
And the degree of industrialization and modernization of the country as a whole is not very high.
In order to make up for the shortcomings in some industrial sectors, India naturally needs to attract outward investment and generate domestic income while making up for the corresponding demand for goods.
This is basically the specific form of the development of India's fertilizer industry in the past few years.
This has also caused an imbalance in the structure of the industrial line, and often those foreign-funded enterprises produce more high-quality fertilizers and more output.
However, local companies are limited by the technology to increase the yield and quality of fertilizers.
Under such an unbalanced industrial structure, it is naturally difficult to guarantee India's fertilizer production.
So how much fertilizer does India produce?
According to statistics, India's annual fertilizer production is currently around 38 million tons.
For a country like India, which has a large population base and is in urgent need of developing an agricultural industry, such fertilizer production is far from enough.
In order to supplement domestic demand, India even imports fertilizers from other countries every year, and last year, India imported 5.44 million tons of fertilizers from the mainland.
Second, how much is China
After looking at India, let's take a look at our country's fertilizer industry, in fact, our country's national conditions are also relatively similar to India, the same is a large population, the market and the industrial structure are more diverse.
But judging from the current situation, the rapid development of our country's market is much faster than that of India, and the fertilizer industry is naturally more advanced than India.
It is important to know that chemical fertilizer is an important support for the construction of modern agriculture, which is a basic industry related to people's livelihood.
In order to better ensure food security, this industry must be promoted.
Therefore, our country also attaches great importance to the development of the fertilizer industry and has been committed to creating a good fertilizer market environment.
In such an environment, those enterprises that focus on fertilizer production can certainly get some market dividends, get subsidies, save a lot of costs, and the development progress will naturally become faster.
From another point of view, in fact, there is still fierce competition in the domestic fertilizer market.
In order to improve market competitiveness and achieve greater market share, those fertilizer companies can only continue to explore technology.
The research and development of products with more competitive advantages in the market has also led to a significant improvement in the quality and output of fertilizer products in the mainland.
Judging by the data, our country has become the world's largest fertilizer producer a few years ago.
At present, the average annual output of chemical fertilizers in mainland China is as high as 57.14 million tons, ranking first in the world.
Such a huge amount of fertilizer production can certainly meet the relevant needs of the domestic market, and according to the data of the second half of 2021, the mainland's fertilizer self-sufficiency rate can even reach 110%.
Such a high self-sufficiency rate in fertilizers. It has surpassed the level of many developed countries.
3. Comparison of fertilizer industry in China and India
If we talk about the comparison between the fertilizer industry in China and India, India must not be comparable to our country.
In addition to the clear gap in output, there are also insurmountable gaps in terms of industrial lines, technology and energy efficiency in production.
At present, the largest proportion of India's domestic fertilizer market is those foreign companies, which also means that there are large technical limitations in India's fertilizer market.
If you want to achieve a breakthrough in fertilizer production, India's local companies need to overcome technical hurdles and improve the energy efficiency of fertilizer production through resources.
But our country is completely different, the mainland's fertilizer industry market is basically dominated by local enterprises.
The products of many leading enterprises are exported to overseas and have been recognized by overseas markets.
The most important thing is that the fertilizer products produced by these leading enterprises are also diverse and specific because of the different production technologies.
This is also more conducive to improving the structural coordination of the development of the mainland's agricultural industry.
At present, the main chemical fertilizer produced in India is basically nitrogen fertilizer. However, in our country, nitrogen fertilizers are the mainstay, supplemented by other types of fertilizers.
Nitrogen fertilizers account for about 73 percent of the continent's total fertilizer production, in addition to many phosphate and potash fertilizers.
It is precisely because of the high energy efficiency of the industry that the mainland's fertilizer industry can also tend to diversify its development form.
In fact, in terms of development, India cannot be compared with our country.
Some people think that our country's fertilizer industry is extremely energy efficient, and the industrial chain is close to saturation, does it indicate that the mainland's fertilizer industry has reached a bottleneck state and can no longer be improved?
What's more, at present, the cost of the fertilizer industry has begun to increase in an all-round way, and the development of the fertilizer industry is facing various problems.
In fact, this is not the case, first of all, the cost of the fertilizer industry began to increase across the board, just because the price of some energy materials has increased.
In the development of these years, it can be seen that the prices of major energy products such as coal, natural gas, and crude oil have indeed continued to rise.
It is precisely because of the increase in the price of these raw materials that the cost of the fertilizer industry in the mainland has increased.
However, at present, our country has been committed to energy transition, and many chemical companies are adopting new clean energy to complete the production of products and improve industrial energy efficiency.
However, in a certain period of time has not yet been formed, as long as they are given a certain amount of time, presumably the cost of the fertilizer industry will return to a rational state, and these enterprises also have more energy and funds to invest in the fertilizer industry production technology research and development and product innovation.
Therefore, cost will not be a reason to limit the continued development of the fertilizer industry in the mainland.
As for the production technology of the traditional fertilizer industry, it is indeed in a bottleneck stage, but the enterprises in our country have not drilled the horns, but have begun to carry out industrial structure reform and technological turn, and are committed to the production of new fertilizers.
Almost all fertilizer companies have begun to adapt to agricultural big data, begin to adapt to changes in downstream demand, and promote transformation and development.
Compared with traditional fertilizers, these new fertilizers are more environmentally friendly, higher quality, and have greater promotion for the development of the agricultural industry. For example, such as water-soluble fertilizers or slow-release fertilizers.
Some market participants have predicted that in the next five years, the mainland's new fertilizers will continue to grow at a compound growth rate of more than 10%.
However, as far as the situation in India is concerned, there are still difficulties in the current situation with local enterprises that have not been able to obtain high practical technical problems, and there will be headaches in the future for the increase in the output of traditional fertilizers.
In this regard, the fertilizer industry on the mainland and in India is already on a different level.
epilogue
China and India are also populous countries and have a high demand for agricultural products.
However, in the field of fertilizer industry, which promotes the development of agricultural industry, the two countries present a different picture.
China has a very high fertilizer production, faster energy efficiency and more technological advantages, but India is completely unable to match China's.
In the future development, the corresponding situation will continue to deepen, and China's fertilizer industry will have greater development potential and development space.
However, on the Indian side, it is necessary to overcome the difficulties of industrial line construction and technological backwardness.
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