# Chinese squeeze drives up DAP fertiliser prices, spurs West Asia reliance | Agriculture - Business Standard

> DAP prices in India rose from about $633 per tonne CFR in January to roughly $780 in June 2025, as China's export restrictions squeezed supply. Indian importers are turning to West Asian suppliers such as Saudi Arabia to fill the gap, and China's share of India's DAP imports has fallen sharply.

- Date: 2025-06-26 · published 2025-06-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region India · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/24531-chinese-squeeze-drives-up-dap-fertiliser-prices-spurs-west-asia-reliance
- Commodities: [DAP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DAP.md)

## Why it matters

Tight Chinese DAP supply is lifting global phosphate prices and raising feed-adjacent input costs, with higher DAP also straining India's subsidy budget. Phosphate costs feed through to crop economics and therefore to grain and oilseed pricing over time.

## Read by commodity

- DAP: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DAP | 2020-08-27 | [Agriculture ministry redetermines fertiliser demand \| The Business Standard](https://feedsoft.ai/events/9345-agriculture-ministry-redetermines-fertiliser-demand-the-business-standard.md) | +5.1% | +5.6% |
| DAP | 2025-08-01 | [India's DAP imports from China fall to 97,000 tonnes in July amid new rules \| Agriculture - Business Standard](https://feedsoft.ai/events/4135-india-s-dap-imports-from-china-fall-to-97-000-tonnes-in-july-amid-new-rules.md) | +8.3% | +8.2% |
| DAP | 2021-02-02 | [Fertiliser prices steadily creep up...but why? - Agriland.ie](https://feedsoft.ai/events/12941-fertiliser-prices-steadily-creep-up-but-why-agriland-ie.md) | +2.2% | -1.5% |
| DAP | 2023-02-15 | [Govt to import 1.5 lakh tonnes of TSP fertiliser from Tunisia \| The Business Standard](https://feedsoft.ai/events/37645-govt-to-import-1-5-lakh-tonnes-of-tsp-fertiliser-from-tunisia-the-business.md) | -0.8% | -3.4% |
| DAP | 2025-08-28 | [Sticky input prices and short supplies: What's keeping fertilizer costs high? - RealAgriculture](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23627-sticky-input-prices-and-short-supplies-what-s-keeping-fertilizer-costs-high.md) | -2.6% | -2.6% |

## Sources

- business-standard.com: https://www.business-standard.com/industry/agriculture/chinese-squeeze-drives-up-dap-fertiliser-prices-spurs-west-asia-reliance-125062600995_1.html

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