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Chapter 258 Phosphorus and Potassium Storm

Domestically, strict prevention and control measures have been implemented in areas with sudden swine fever outbreaks.

In fact, Fengmin Agriculture and the Suiren Group behind it have already formulated many plans with COFCO and Beidahuang Group.

Among them, the preparations for Fengmin Agriculture are actually the most adequate and comprehensive.

Fengmin Agriculture has 75 large feed warehouses, 21 grain reserve warehouses, and 26 reserve frozen warehouses across the country.

The subsidiary Feipeng Express has fully protected trucks, cold chain trucks, and large cold chain cargo ships. In the global logistics and transportation industry, Feipeng's unit transportation cost is the lowest, only about 32 to 35% of the global average cost.

At the same time, Fengmin Agriculture has implemented fully isolated breeding from the beginning. The safety level of its own farms is very high, which basically eliminates the spread of foreign pathogens.

COFCO and Beidahuang have also learned part of Fengmin's practices, which has resulted in their large-scale breeding farms being able to suppress the outbreak of swine fever to the greatest extent in terms of epidemic prevention.

After the initial panic, the three major groups responded quickly and suppressed the swine fever to a small area.

at the same time.

An invisible storm is blowing quietly.

However, it all started not in East Asia, nor in North America, nor in Western Europe, but in the little-known western part of North Africa.

Kingdom of Morocco.

The capital, Bharat City, is also the largest city in the country.

Morocco has the world's largest phosphate mining area, with reserves reaching 110 billion tons, accounting for 70% of the world's total reserves. It is also the world's largest phosphate exporter.

The country's phosphates are monopolized by the Moroccan Phosphate Company.

However, since last year, the Moroccan Phosphate Company has sold a large mining area in the central plateau to Blue Star Mining, and the two parties have reached a strategic partnership.

In fact, the world's three largest phosphate producing areas are Morocco, Jordan and Egypt. Their phosphate companies were all listed on the Dalian Exchange around October last year through the relationships between Blue Star, United and Beijing Enterprises.

Including China's domestic phosphate production, the four companies together account for 97.2% of the world's total phosphate production. Basically, other regions, except for some small mines, can only import phosphate raw ore from the four major producing areas to produce phosphate fertilizer on a large scale. .

Zhang Xinghai, the person in charge of the Water Affairs Corporation in Morocco, invited Ian, the president of the Moroccan Phosphate Company, to visit the company's premises.

The security personnel checked the small private room inside and out, and asked Ian and his two cronies to hand over all their electronic devices before allowing the three of them to enter.

As soon as he entered the private room and saw Zhang Xinghai, Ian complained: "Zhang, is it necessary to be so strict?"

Seeing Ian who was not taking it seriously, Zhang Xinghai reminded him calmly: "Ian, don't think that this is your homeland, so you can sit back and relax. The backdoors of these electronic devices are in the hands of those guys."

"..." Ian fell silent immediately. Every time he met with Zhang Xinghai, he was a little bored by this strict security check, but he had nothing to do because the security issue was really important.

After the two parties sat down, they started chatting while eating. Twenty minutes later, Ian sent away his two cronies, leaving only him and Zhang Xinghai in the room.

"Ian, your food self-sufficiency rate has improved a lot!"

Ian actually knows in his heart that this is the operation of the water company and COFCO, deliberately using seawater to desalinize the fresh water in the factory and cultivate Morocco's local food supply.

Since last June, the tropical desert areas in southern Morocco have been contracted by large local businessmen to build a large number of glass greenhouses and solar farms.

Coupled with large-scale mechanized planting in other parts of the country, Morocco's food self-sufficiency rate has increased from about 42.3% to about 71.3%. It is estimated that this ratio will further increase to about 85% before the end of this year.

The Phosphate Company also cooperated with COFCO to establish a grain reserve. Last year, taking advantage of the low international grain prices, it imported more than two million tons of wheat in one go.

In other words, Morocco can completely abandon international food imports and add grain reserves to achieve domestic self-sufficiency in food.

Moreover, after a large amount of desert was transformed into farmland, it absorbed a large number of unemployed people, further stabilizing the economy and society of the region.

"Zhang, what are your plans?"

Zhang Xinghai said with a smile: "Ian, the international price of phosphate is too low."

The international phosphate price is too low? Isn't this the result of you lowering the price for shipment? Ian secretly complained, but the complaint was a complaint, so he continued on the topic: "It is indeed a little low, do you want to raise the price?"

"We plan to cut production by 50% and raise prices to more than twice the current price."

Cut production by 50%?

Double the price?

Ian was startled, and his lips became dry. He subconsciously picked up the juice on the side and took a sip to calm down his shock. After he recovered, he said:

"Zhang, we have a free trade agreement with the Western Continent Alliance. This kind of thing is not easy to operate."

Zhang Xinghai said with a half-smile: "Of course you can't take the initiative to reduce production and raise prices, but you can passively reduce production and raise prices."

Passive production reduction? This is... Ian looked at Zhang Xinghai in confusion.

Zhang Xinghai came close to his ear and whispered a few words.

Gulu! Ian suddenly broke into a cold sweat and asked a little uneasily: "Zhang, will doing this..."

"What are you afraid of? Your mining areas are all open-pit mines anyway. You put some old and broken equipment on the bright side. This is 5 million yuan of activity funds. Don't let us down." Zhang Xinghai handed over a bank check from Bank of China He handed it over and patted Ian on the shoulder.

Spurred by the pursuit of wealth and wealth, and the fact that China dominates the world's phosphate core, if they don't obey, the consequences will be that they don't have to do any business.

What's more, reducing production and raising prices will not harm their company.

Three days later.

The world's fourth largest phosphate producing area, located in the New Valley Province in the middle reaches of the Nile River, has a mine collapse accident at the largest local phosphate company, causing the area's phosphate exports to drop to less than 32%.

The Jordanian Phosphate Mining Group followed closely behind. Due to the recent instability in West Asia, many armed personnel have fled into the mining area, resulting in the mining area having to shrink the mining area.

Finally, there is the Moroccan Phosphate Company.

Three of the four major mining areas in the central plateau of the region were engulfed in thick smoke. The miners were dissatisfied with wages and high-intensity labor and smashed and burned a large number of equipment, bringing production in the mining areas to a standstill.

For a time, the global supply of phosphate raw ore fell by more than 42%, and the final production area, China's three major mining groups, also announced two days later that it would reduce domestic phosphate mining due to environmental protection needs.

In less than a week, global phosphate production dropped to only about 48% of its previous level, and prices immediately soared by 270%.

The skyrocketing price of phosphate has increased the production costs of downstream phosphate fertilizer processing companies, thereby raising the prices of phosphate fertilizers and compound fertilizers.

This comes at a time when the global fertilizer industry is worried about phosphate production.

Maple Leaf Potash Company, which had been holding on for more than a year, finally came to an end and became the last potash fertilizer production company in North America to file for bankruptcy.

The main reason is that the three major mining groups have lowered prices for shipments, which has hit them hard to maintain. For every ton of potash fertilizer produced, they will lose 67 yuan. No one can withstand this blow.

Even if ABCD continues to receive blood transfusions, investors have lost confidence in Maple Leaf Potash Company.

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