1 October 2012, the fertilizer industry investment in fixed assets of 116.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 15.3%; accounted for 33.4% of the planned investment, rose 0.4 percent year-on-year. The first 10 months of cumulative investment continues to grow, the nitrogen fertilizer investment year-on-year increase of 3.3%, while phosphate fertilizer, potash fertilizer and organic fertilizer investment increase in more than 20%. 

Compared with the same period last year, the proportion of nitrogen fertilizer investment declined from 32.2% to 28.9%, compound fertilizer fell from 30.1% to 29.3%, organic fertilizer increased from 17.8% to 19.3%; other fertilizers (including humic acid fertilizer, amino acid fertilizer, bio- bacterial manure, etc.) rose to 10.9% from 9.3%. 

In October, fertilizer total investment of 15.14 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 14.2%, a decline of 1.8%. 

1 to October, a total the 1672 fertilizer projects under construction, an increase of 0.8%. 1175 new projects, 138 new projects of nitrogen fertilizer; 769 completed projects over the same period. The average size of the fertilizer investment projects increased from 60.69 million yuan in the same period last year to 69.45 million yuan, a year-on-year growth of 14.4%. (And Wei)