The global potash fertilizer market is expected to exceed $39 billion by 2017, with a CAGR of 4.9% over the next five years. The fertilizer is used for crop nutrition required for plant development. It improves a plant's ability to withstand disease, increases yields, improves the quality, and lengthens the shelf life of the c
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The report focuses on the drivers of the potash fertilizer industry. The need for balanced fertilization to increase crop productivity and increasing demand for biofuels require massive agricultural production, which can be achieved through increased potash fertilizer application. Due to a high degree of consolidation, China and Brazil remain interested in and capable of building or buying their own potash fertilizer production as a matter of national food security.
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Lucintel's report provides a brief study of the industry’s major challenges. R&D costs continue to rise due to the increasing regulatory burden and complexity of the products. Sales of various potash fertilizers heavily depend on climatic conditions and crop variance. Global production and trade of potash fertilizer were adversely affected in 2009 as global demand declined due to the economic downturn.
This study is intended to provide industry leaders with a competitive benchmarking of the potash fertilizer market and gives a concise view of the up-to-date information of the market share, profit margin, and strategies of the key players, their capabilities, and effective market planning against the leading competitors.
Europe dominates the industry, representing the largest share in the global potash fertilizer industry.
Some of the features of Growth Opportunities in the Potash Fertilizer market report are:
• Potash fertilizer market size estimates in terms of (US $) value by regions
• Global potash fertilizer market analysis annual trend (2006-2011) and forecast (2012-2017)
• Porter’s Five Force analysis
• New product launch, merger and acquisition activity in global potash fertilizer market analysis
• Quarterly demand trend (Q1 2010-Q4 2011) and forecast analysis (Q1 2012-Q4 2013) for global potash fertilizer market analysis
• Gross and net profit trends in the global potash fertilizer industry analysis
• Cost structure trend in the global as well as regional potash fertilizer analysis
• More than 43 valuable figures/charts and 11 tables are provided in this report