This year, the fertilizer industry to production capacity pressures, coupled with the price of agricultural products, farmers grow enthusiasm is not high, reduce agricultural demand, resulting in fertilizer prices fell almost across the board.

　　From late October onwards, with the agricultural fertilizer over, Shandong province Zibo city Linzi District fertilizer market entered the light storage season, prices stabilized.

　　According to monitoring, Linzi District of Zibo Municipality in November, with rising coal prices, Linzi fertilizer industry production costs increased sharply, a number of varieties of price off-season rising signs, including the price of urea present rose momentum. The November 24th monitoring data show that urea per kilogram from April at the beginning of 1.36 yuan rose to 1.5 yuan, up 10.3% over the same period last year, 1.55 yuan / kg, down 3.2%; potassium sulfate compound fertilizer three yuan per kilogram from at the beginning of the month rose 2.1 yuan to 2.2 yuan, up 4.8% over the same period last year, 2.4 yuan / kg, down 9.1%; ammonium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium phosphate prices basically stable, the off-season does not appear signs of decline, the price per kilogram respectively 0.6 yuan, 2.6 yuan. Only potassium chloride appeared slightly down, 1.97 yuan per kilogram from the beginning of the month fell to 1.92 yuan, or 2.5%, compared with the same period last year 2.15 yuan / kg fell by 10.7%.

　　Recently, the rapid rise in coal prices is the main cause of urea and other fertilizer prices rose. Second, the most stringent highway overload leads to the introduction of new regulations, motor capacity decline, freight prices, increased transportation costs of chemical fertilizer enterprises. In addition, with the comprehensive start of the central environmental inspectors, fertilizer industry, environmental pressure increases, increased investment in environmental protection, but also caused a certain impact on the production capacity.

　　In the face of the high cost of fertilizer production, especially with the late winter starts, fertilizer prices still have some room to rise, but the downstream demand remains weak has become the obstacle of fertilizer market continues upward.