Key issues on Producing Nutrient Statistics

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Key issues on Producing Nutrient Statistics
Robert Mayo Senior Statistician FAO Statistics
Division UNECE/FAO/Eurostat Workshop on
Environment Statistics (Budva, Montenegro, May
2013)
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Crop production and Non- fertilizer use

• Used for crop production concept refers to the
  total quantity of fertilizers applied to the soil
  to increase crop yields.
• Non fertilizer use should recorded to ensure it
  is not included in the fertilizer used for crop
  production.

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Fertilizer Production

• Intermediates ammonia (NH3) and phosphoric acid
  (H3PO4)
• Ammonia feedstocks - natural gas, coal or
  lignite, etc
• Raw materials to manufacture phosphoric acid are
  phosphate rock and sulphur.

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Fertilizer Production Double counting

• Straight fertilizers and ammonium phosphate
  domestically produced or imported are often used
  to manufacture other fertilizers.
• Primary producers are those who use feedstocks,
  raw materials and/or intermediates to produce
  finished fertilizers.
• Secondary producers are those who start from
  finished fertilizer materials and produce other
  fertilizers.
• Only the production of the primary producers
  should be included in the production data,
  otherwise the same material will be counted twice
  (double counted).

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Fertilizer Import and Export

• Important to record the correct product
• HS Codes
• 3102 Mineral or chemical fertilisers,
  nitrogenous
• 3103 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, phosphatic
• 3104 Mineral or chemical fertilisers, potassic
• 3105 Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing
  two or three of the fertilising elements,
  nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

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Fertilizer consumption in agriculture
Production Imports - Exports -
Non-Fertilizer use Consumption Or if you
are missing the Consumption of fertilizers Prod
uction Imports - Non-fertilizer use -
Exports Apparent consumption
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Manure and sewage sludge

• Manure cattle, Horse, pig, sheep, poultry,
  guano
• Compost decomposed raw material (animal manure,
  garden and lawn waste)
• Sewage waste.

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Further information and acknowledgements Further
information available at FAO Statistics
Division http//www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-agri
/ess-resource-meth/en/ FAOSTAT Fertilizers
http//faostat.fao.org/site/575/default.aspxancor
Acknowledgements The input of Dominic
Ballayan and Simona Mosco is very much
appreciated in preparing this presentation.