According to the latest statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics, China's total production of 4.53 million tons of chemical fertilizers in August fell by 6.4% compared with the same period last year, while the decline was 5.8% in July. In 1-8 months, China produced 37 million 15 thousand tons of chemical fertilizer, down 6.3% from the same period last year.

From the specific varieties, the yield of nitrogen fertilizer has decreased greatly. In August, China produced 2 million 864 thousand tons of nitrogen fertilizer, down 8.5% from the same period last year. As the start-up rate declined, the output of Guangxi, Anhui, Heilongjiang, Hebei and other provinces declined by more than 20%; Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Chongqing and other places also declined by more than 10%. In 1-8 months, China produced a total of 23 million 970 thousand tons of nitrogen fertilizer, down 8.2% from the same period last year. Among them, China's urea production in August was 19.94 million tons, down 10% from a year earlier; the cumulative production of urea in January-August was 16.488 million tons, down 7.6% from a year earlier.

The output of phosphate fertilizer also showed a downward trend. In August, China produced 1 million 148 thousand tons of phosphate fertilizer, down 1.9% from the same period last year. The output of Hubei, the main phosphate fertilizer producing province, was 289,000 tons, down 10.5% from a year earlier; Guizhou, 293,000 tons, up 4.3%; Yunnan, 168,000 tons, up 11.6%; and Sichuan, 106,000 tons, down 1.2% from a year earlier. In 1-8 months, China produced 8 million 987 thousand tons of phosphate fertilizer, down 5.1% from the same period last year.

Potash fertilizer is the only positive growth product. In August, China produced 518 thousand tons of potash fertilizer, an increase of 2.2% over the same period last year. Among them, Qinghai's output is 430,000 tons, accounting for 83% of the total national potassium output; Xinjiang's production of potassium fertilizer dropped sharply in August, only 4390 tons, down 83.1% year on year. In 1-8 months, China produced 4 million 56 thousand tons of potash fertilizer, an increase of 3.1% over the same period last year.