The Spring Festival is lopsided, compound fertilizer market area in southern cold weather as the downturn. February 15th, 45% chlorine based compound fertilizer mainstream ex factory price 1850 ~ 2050 yuan (ton price, the same below), 45% sulfur based compound fertilizer 2200 ~ 2300 yuan. Industry generally to the compound fertilizer market is not optimistic, but expect spring arrives earlier, let spring just need to digest the existing stock.
"N, P, K three major raw materials prices are still in the overall downward trend, it is difficult to support the price of compound fertilizer." Hubei Huafeng Biological Chemical Co., Ltd. supply department minister Wang Xingwu open the door see mountain said, "raw materials mainstream prices continue to dip, compound fertilizer price always confined. From the current view, the Spring Festival after the raw material market is unlikely to improve the market, the road is long to pick up the compound fertilizer."
Current compound fertilizer market sales situation is not ideal, it is difficult to digest inventory, dealers take goods enthusiasm is low, wait and see mood is still strong." Hubei lush biological Co., Ltd. Marketing Manager Zhang Jinglei said.
On the one hand, lower prices of agricultural products, in some areas has appeared phenomenon of reclaiming uncultivated land, cultivate an area to decrease, fertilizer demand decrease; on the other hand, corn prices fell to a low, many farmers suffer from I do not know what kind of, the downstream market overall wait-and-see. Up to now, northeast compound fertilizer stocking only up to 40% over the same period last year, the middle and lower reaches of the north, east to wait-and-see, stocking only in three or four, individual regions and even did not start for winter storage, terminal market is not moving. During the Spring Festival, trucks and trains and shipping and other transport channels close, enterprises to take the volume and operating rate reduction, at present compound fertilizer enterprises overall operating rate only in about four percent, most of the enterprises in the park at the end of January holiday, the earliest of the first lunar month started production.
Compound fertilizer enterprise price gradually become opaque, the price game between traders and enterprises. Dealers carefully take goods, raw materials prices downward trend continues, compound fertilizer enterprises in the multi layer of the deadlock. Prices of enterprises to defend, but the transaction price has loose. Companies can not keep inventory, traders can purchase, the downturn in the market is becoming more and more edgy. With spring approaching, the market volume will rise slightly, but difficult to have a big improvement." Zhang Jinglei said.
"Focus to get goods phenomenon to appear in the international market of the arrival of the spring will be, then the fertilizer market go cargo pressure will increase production manufacturers pressure increase, to bring a lot of difficulties of upstream and downstream. Even so, with the current downturn in the environment, the composite fertilizer prices may not rise." Xi Guangming, general manager of Hubei phosphate fertilizer Co., ltd..
Xi Guangming believes that after the Spring Festival, the compound fertilizer market demand gradually recovered. After 3 months in North China Winter Wheat fertilizer demand, northeast corn with fertilizer demand and southern economic crops and fruit trees fertilizer demand will continue to start, but overall demand will significantly compared to previous years reduce expected the compound fertilizer market will not improved significantly after the Spring Festival.
Affected by the rigid demand, spring mingmian prices of chemical fertilizers or slightly higher, but the actual transaction price is difficult to have a fundamental breakthrough, downstream of compound fertilizer by fertilizer enthusiasm frustrated again in the short term to go volume was still small.
"The invasion of the country appears more cold, rain and snow, the shipment of the goods limited. The Northeast regional distributors arrival of compound fertilizer was not significantly increased, the overall arrival still in 3 into the left and right sides, part of the fed to jointly sell products. Market fertilizer will start after the spring festival." Zhang Jinglei said.