Russia’s largest fertilizer distribution network, PhosAgro-Region, increased its total sales of fertilizers to the domestic market (including into storage facilities) by 12 percent to 3.54 million mt in 2020, up from in the prior year, PhosAgro reported this week.
Russian farmers increased their procurement by 8 percent, to 2.9 million mt. Sales of PhosAgro’s phosphate-based and complex fertilizers rose 7 percent to 2.36 million mt, while PhosAgro-Region’s sales of fertilizers manufactured by other producers last year reached 640,000 mt.
Acron Group similarly reported a sharp increase in its fertilizer shipments to the domestic market last year. It said it shipped 1.4 million mt, up 93 percent year-on-year.
Acron Group said its sales of ammonium nitrate to Russian growers more than doubled in 2020, while NPK supplies were up 70 percent Veliky Novgorod-based Acron saw its urea supplies up 36 percent and UAN supplies up 52 percent.
Growers in Russia’s central and southern federal districts remain the main consumers of the group’s products.
Agronova, Acron’s distribution network in the Russian market, was established in 2005.