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Key issues on Producing Nutrient Statistics

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

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Key issues on Producing Nutrient Statistics

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  1. Key issues on Producing Nutrient Statistics Robert Mayo Senior Statistician FAO Statistics Division UNECE/FAO/Eurostat Workshop on Environment Statistics (Budva, Montenegro, May 2013)

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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).

  5. 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.

  6. Fertilizer consumption in agriculture Production + Imports - Exports - Non-Fertilizer use = Consumption Or if you are missing the Consumption of fertilizers: Production + Imports - Non-fertilizer use - Exports = Apparent consumption

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

  8. 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.aspx#ancor Acknowledgements: The input of Dominic Ballayan and Simona Mosco is very much appreciated in preparing this presentation.

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