Sentence examples for cost of fertilisers from inspiring English sources

It rough," he responds when prompted by a question about the rising cost of fertilisers and pesticides.

The cost of fertilisers have risen fourfold in the past few years because petrol prices have soared.

They omit the states' deficits and also most of the cost of fertiliser and fuel subsidies (which all told add another 3.5% of GDP).

Poor rains, a tripling in the cost of fertiliser and pesticide, and land disputes linked to the election crisis have wrecked this year's maize harvest.

"But it's important to recognise other factors: erratic weather, the high cost of fertiliser and the impact of HIV on the farming community".

Around 40% of the American maize crop will be used to produce ethanol this year.Rising prices affect farmers in less positive ways, of course; Arable farmers are quick to cite the cost of fertiliser and livestock farmers the price of feed.

Meanwhile, the cost of fertiliser production has also risen as the richest, cheapest phosphate seams have already been mined.

Spikes in global fertiliser prices in the mid-1970s late-2000s000s led to reductions in fertiliser application in New Zealand as farmers had to trade off productivity gains against the increased cost of fertiliser.

But the future of farming in this area is uncertain, with soil fertility exhausted, climate-change impacts already being felt, and the costs of fertilisers used to grow the onions heaped on each plot wiping out profits.

Fertiliser production is dependent on both supply (especially for fertilisers based on mining naturally occurring deposits, such as phosphorus) and the energy costs of fertiliser production.

The different impact of higher oil prices on organic and non-organic profits is mainly due to the high cost of artificial fertilisers – a fossil-fuel heavy industry – used in non-organic systems.