CHEMICAL FERTILIZER

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Produce more chemical fertilizer and strive for richer harvests. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

By 2005, the domestic chemical fertilizer is required to satisfy at least 80% of the total market demand. (references)

China plans to restructure the chemical fertilizer industry to meet the needs of its agricultural development during the 2000-2005 period. (references)

Saudi Arabia and Tunisia cooperated to set up the Sino-Arab Chemical Fertilizer Co., Ltd. to produce ammonium phosphorous and Israel cooperated with a Chinese firm to produce potassium fertilizer. (references)

Economic History

Afghanistan

Relatively little use is made of machines, chemical fertilizer, or pesticides. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Danish

uorganisk goedning (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), kunstgødning (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

Dutch

meststof (artificial manure, dressing, fertiliser, fertilizer, manure), kunstmeststof (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), kunstmest (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

Finnish

lannoite (fertilizer), keinolannoite (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

French

engrais chimique. (various references)

German

Mineraldünger (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), Kunstdünger (artificial fertilizer, fertilizer), Düngemittel (fertilizers), anorganischer Dünger (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

Hungarian

műtrágya. (various references)

Italian

concime chimico (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), concime artificiale (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

金肥 , 人� 肥料 , 化成肥料 , 化学肥料 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�"ぴ, かがくひりょう, かせいひりょう, じ�"ぞうひりょう. (various references)

Pig Latin

emicalchay ertilizerfay

Portuguese

fertilizante químico (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer). (various references)

Spanish

fertilizante químico (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), fertilizante (fertilizer), estiércol artificial (artificial compost, artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer, synthetic compost, synthetics), abono químico (chemical fertilizers). (various references)

Swedish

handelsgödsel (artificial manure, dressing, fertilizer), gödselmedel (artificial manure, dressing, fertiliser, fertilizer, manure). (various references)