Gulf region produces much of the world's fertilizer, and the Strait of Hormuz handles one-third of global trade as spring ...

UNSW engineers have tackled a longstanding problem at the heart of global agriculture: how to make urea for fertilizer ...

Shares of fertilizer producers surged Monday, as investors bet that supply disruptions resulting from the conflict in the Middle East could lead to higher nitrogen prices — boosting profits in the ...

Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers such as urea help feed about half of the world’s population. But making urea is a multistep endeavor that consumes copious amounts of energy and emits large amounts of ...

TOKYO, Nov 10, 2025 - (JCN Newswire) - - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has signed an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract with SC Turkmenhimiya, the state-owned chemical ...

The war in Iran is already driving up urea prices in North American and will likely impact phosphate as well, say analysts.

China has asked some fertilizer producers to suspend urea exports after domestic prices jumped, a move that’s likely to restrict supplies and boost costs for farmers in key buyers such as India. Some ...

Farmers in India are desperate. Trucks in South Korea had to be idled. Food prices, already high, could rise even further. By Raymond Zhong This is a story about one of those unsung forces that ...