Press release No. N 060 of 26 September 2022
- High gas prices have led to massively higher producer prices of fertilisers and a significant drop in fertiliser sales
- Producer prices of fertilisers nearly doubled in August 2022 compared with the same month a year earlier
- Domestic sales in the 2nd quarter of 2022: phosphate fertiliser down 51% on the same quarter a year earlier, potassium fertiliser down 52%
- In terms of quantity, foreign trade in fertilisers decreased from January to July 2022 compared with the same period a year earlier
WIESBADEN – The high gas prices have also affected fertiliser sales in Germany. Based on results of the statistics of fertilisers, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the quantities of fertilisers put on the market in Germany in the second quarter of 2022 declined substantially compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The sales figures include fertilisers produced in Germany as well as imported fertilisers. Domestic sales of phosphate fertiliser fell by half (-50.6%) compared with the same quarter a year earlier, down to 14,000 tonnes of phosphate, the nutrient contained in the fertiliser. Sales of potassium fertiliser, too, declined by roughly half (-52.3%) to 55,900 tonnes of potassium oxide. Sales of nitrogenous fertiliser amounted to 238,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxide, a decrease of 18.5% on the same quarter a year earlier. Compared with the second quarter of 2021, only sales of calcium fertiliser (592,600 tonnes of calcium oxide) remained nearly unchanged (-0.1%).
