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. 2022 Aug 17;9(1):501.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01592-z.

Global data on fertilizer use by crop and by country

Cameron I Ludemann  1 , Armelle Gruere  2 , Patrick Heffer  2 , Achim Dobermann  2
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Global data on fertilizer use by crop and by country

Cameron I Ludemann et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

Understanding how much inorganic fertilizer (referred to as fertilizer) is applied to different crops at national, regional and global levels is an essential component of fertilizer consumption analysis and demand projection. Good information on fertilizer use by crop (FUBC) is rarely available because it is difficult to collect and time-consuming to process and validate. To fill this gap, a first global FUBC report was published in 1992 for the 1990/1991 period, based on an expert survey conducted jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) and the International Fertilizer Association (IFA). Since then, similar expert surveys have been carried out and published every two to four years in the main fertilizer-consuming countries. Since 2008 IFA has led these efforts and, to our knowledge, remains the only globally available data set on FUBC. This dataset includes data (in CSV format) from a survey carried out by IFA to represent the 2017-18 period as well as a collation of all historic FUBC data.

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Conflict of interest statement

This work was funded by the International Fertilizer Association.

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