Potash. Contributing to the World's Food Security

Everyone needs NPK. It’s not a stock trading symbol, but a formula for enhanced food productivity – nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium – the essential triumvirate of fertilizer. Even during an economic downturn, the increasing world population needs food. Plants eaten by people and domestic animals (raised for meat and dairy products) are dominantly cereals (grains of the grass family: mainly rice, wheat, and corn, as well as oats, rye, barley, sorghum, and wild rice) and legumes (beans, soybeans, peas, peanuts, etc.), which, when consumed in combination provide a balanced protein diet. Other important grasses to the economic system are sugar cane and bamboo. Productivity of all crops can be improved with appropriate applications of modern fertilizer in addition to maintaining good soil, using best management practices, and farming wisdom developed over millennia of human agriculture.

- Article on potash, featuring Western Potash. July 2009, ResourceWorld Magazine.

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