Fertilisers

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an estimate of the total amount of fertilizer used in Britain and produced in British plants as a percentage of total consumption in (a) 2018 and (b) 2021.


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Victoria Prentis
Attorney General
This question was answered on 21st March 2022

Of the 3.98 million tonnes of inorganic mineral fertiliser used in Britain in 2018 approximately 40% of this was produced domestically. This amounted to approximately 1.5 million tonnes primarily of ammonium nitrate. Regarding 2021 figures we don’t yet have sight of the related British Survey Fertiliser Practice which outlines the types, amounts and how fertiliser is used across Britain for that year as these are usually released in June or July.

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