The Guardian produced good infographics in their article yesterday,
“‘Food security timebomb’: a visual guide to the Gulf fertiliser blockade”
April 3, 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/visual-guide-gulf-fertiliser-blockade
The numbers should make the climate establishment to shut up about their opposition to fossil fuels. No fossil fuels especially oil-gas means no sulfur, no potash, no phosphate, no urea, no ammonia. All used for fertilizers.
Animal manure or "organic fertilizer" can be substitute but it has three disadvantages.
1. Impact on plant needs take months, not days. My rice farmer friend says if you put the animal manure say in the first planting season (May-June), real growth in rice is felt in the second planting season (Sept-Oct).
2. Need huge volume of animal dung -- low fertilizer density -- to get the desired productivity and output per hectare of rice. There are not many cows around as land priority is rice farming, cattle farming is just sideline income of farmers.
3. Many grasses quickly grow. Cows eat grasses including their roots, the cow dung includes latent grasses ready to germinate with just 1 rain. More grasses mean more competition for soil minerals, less growth for rice.
It's really the chemical fertilizers that deliver the desired growth for rice within days and weeks, not months, minus the grasses.
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See also:
Iran War 1, rising crude oil prices, March 22, 2026
Iran War 2, Rising government bond rates, March 23, 2026
Iran war 3, Rising prices of fertilizers, March 24, 2026
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