Fertilizer exports to exchange ideas

Phosphorus fertilizer is now in the export window, but the situation is not optimistic. Starting next month, urea will also enter the off-season export period. From the current pre-judgment, the export situation is not optimistic. In the fertilizer export policy, should we have new ideas? As the industry itself, how can we adjust our export strategy?

Party A's policies need to be adjusted. The international market for fertilizers is facing a new situation. The current export policy should be adjusted in terms of regulatory objectives, standards and methods. At present, the setting up of the busy season window makes Chinese export companies very passive. This is an important reason for the loss of corporate interests.

First of all, we must establish a new concept of fertilizer exports. Today, China is not only a big exporter of chemical fertilizers, but also a big importer of agricultural products. Imported agricultural products are imported resources and energy. This is a two-way flow of nutrients. From this perspective, export policies should have new arrangements and incentives. We can encourage companies to go overseas to engage in agricultural production, and thus drive the export of chemical fertilizers to exchange chemical fertilizers for food, so as to achieve two-way flow of nutrients.

Second, exports are properly loosened, such as the cancellation of window restrictions. At present, the international fertilizer production capacity is released quickly, and the international competitiveness of China's fertilizers has begun to weaken. The fertilizer industry has a dual nature. We must not only see its characteristics of supporting agriculture but also see itself as an important part of the national economy. We should give more space for the export of chemical fertilizers to allow enterprises to have sufficient strength and certain time to complete industrial upgrading and industrial transformation.

Party B's companies are looking for new ways. The fertilizer industry has two particularities: First, as agricultural production data, the service focus of the fertilizer industry cannot be abroad, especially China has still faced greater food security pressures; second, as a kind of fertilizer Energy and resource-based products and energy resources are non-renewable. If we indulge in exports, it will inevitably affect the long-term development of the fertilizer industry and China's agriculture.

The solution is to innovate ideas, find better fertilizer products and more scientific export channels.

The first is to take the export road of quality instead of quantity. At present, China's fertilizer companies export basic homogenized traditional fertilizers, and export profits have shrunk dramatically. The quality fertilizers of foreign large enterprises are still occupying the domestic high-end products market steadily, such as water-soluble fertilizers, trace element fertilizers, and special fertilizers for economic crops. The top priority for Chinese companies is to enhance their innovation capabilities and shift their energies to increase the value-added of their products. They must exchange the lowest resource consumption and costs for the greatest export benefits. This is the main direction for Chinese fertilizer companies to export and transform.

The second is to broaden the export channels. The key lies in two points: First, export enterprises must study the agricultural demand and fertilization preference of the target market, launch targeted export varieties, avoid homogenous competition, and occupy the regional market; second is to strengthen research on national policies. Under the premise of meeting the policy requirements, formulate scientific export strategies and reasonably expand export volume. The current problem is that most domestic companies with a size above the medium-sized scale do not pay enough attention to exports and show fear or difficulty in self-confidence. Fertilizers cannot be abandoned in the international market. Fertilizer companies should plan ahead and strengthen research on the international market in order to achieve better development.