Nitrogen Fertiliser Prices in Poland Jump Sharply in Two Weeks

Nitrogen fertiliser in Poland has become an average of 120 zlotys (zł) per tonne more expensive over two weeks, compared with the last ten days of October, according to a price survey by the agricultural portal Farmer.pl. For farmers this means higher input costs, and some products are also getting harder to obtain from distributors.

The portal collected prices from about twenty distributors across various regions of Poland and calculated an average gross price without discounts.

Biggest increases

Anwistar ammonium nitrate and RSM 28 liquid nitrogen fertiliser rose the most, by 250 zł/t. Anwistar is made by Anwil, which belongs to the oil group Orlen and is Poland's second-largest fertiliser producer; it now averages 2,610 zł/t. RSM 28 averages 2,310 zł/t. Pulan ammonium nitrate and RSM 32 went up by about 200 zł/t on average: Pulan costs 2,560 zł/t and RSM 32 costs 2,400 zł/t.

Other Grupa Azoty products: Zaksan/Megan 33.5 at 2,510 zł/t (+180), Pulrea urea with a urease inhibitor at 3,400 zł/t (+60), Saletrosan 26 plus at 2,300 zł/t (+80), and Saletrzak 27 at 2,130 zł/t (+60).

Anwil's Canwil saletrzak costs 2,240 zł/t (+110). Imported urea, usually without an inhibitor, costs 2,960 zł/t (+20), imported ammonium nitrate 1,940 zł/t (+50), and imported saletrzak 1,750 zł/t (+100).

Availability

The portal says the situation has been poor for months and the increases are accelerating: its previous survey recorded an average rise of 55 zł/t in a week and a half. At the pricier distributors, Polish ammonium nitrate prices are approaching 2,800 zł/t. More and more distributors say that some nitrogen fertilisers, especially RSM, are available only to order or that sales are suspended indefinitely, even though, according to distributors, production continues normally. Availability of Polish-made urea is also falling.