Fertilizer industry in I.R.Iran, opportunities and challenges

Fertilizer industry is classified under ISIC code 2214 and according to the statistical center of Iran , the share of fertilizer in the whole industry was 1.18% in 1386. (Iranian calendar) Fertilizer industry is classified under the high energy user industries in the Iran 1404 vision ,that according to this document, the high energy user industries have 38.7% of whole industry value-added that these industries should achieve 526.4 billion Rials by the year 1404 that counts 36.5% of total value-added of industry. In accordance with the statistical center, fertilizer had 3.7% of industry value-added in 1386 that with the same rate of the high energy user industries, fertilizer should achieve 19.5 thousands billions Rials. On the other hand, substituting the chemical fertilizer with biofertilizer up to 10% in long term is requested in the national document of biotechnology. Being informed of the fertilizer industry , identifying the opportunities, challenges and removing the impedes is essential to achieve the requested value-added in the vision and realizing the goals of the national document of the biotechnology and optimizing the fertilizer consumptions according to the article 61 of the fourth program of the national development. In this article have been tried to have a look at the global situation of fertilizer, domestic fertilizer industry including, nitrated, phosphate, potash, NPK, organic and bio -fertilizer and finally introduce the most important problems of the fertilizer industry and appropriate solutions.

کلیدواژه ها:

Fertilizer ، NPK ، nitrated fertilizer ، phosphate fertilizer ، potash fertilizer ، bio-fertilizer