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A BBC feature reports that phosphorus is essential for crops and that fertiliser is often expensive or unavailable for smallholder farmers. It describes a demonstration farm in Blantyre, Malawi, teaching farmers to make thermic compost from corn stalks and chicken manure as a low-cost soil improver.
The compost is presented as a way to reduce dependence on mineral fertilisers.
Wider adoption of compost could marginally reduce demand for mineral phosphate fertilisers in smallholder Africa, though the effect on global phosphate rock prices is negligible in the near term.
bbc.comSibylle Grunze, Kerstin Hoppenhaus in MalawiFeb 4, 2019Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
