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Australia acts to protect winter crops with emergency Indonesian fertiliser deal
April 17, 2026
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An Australian company will import 250,000 tonnes of urea fertiliser from Indonesia in the coming months, easing fears of a shortage that would crimp food production, Canberra said on Friday. Australia is one of the world’s biggest exporters of crops including wheat, barley and canola but relies on fertiliser imports that are threatened by the war on Iran, which has cut supply from the Middle East, a major urea producer.
The price of urea, a source of nitrogen that fuels plant growth, has risen...
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