Yara projects positive scenario for the fertilizer market in 2023

Yara Brasil, a plant nutrition company, positively assesses the scenario of the Brazilian fertilizer market in 2023, as the main supply obstacles from last year have been mitigated, enabling the resumption of consumption and the improvement of the exchange ratio in comparison with the last year.

“The outlook for 2023 is for a resumption of fertilizer consumption, even considering the need to return fertilization to ideal levels for planting, given that in the last year producers in several regions reduced the application dose. At Yara, we are working to offer the best complete solutions to our customers and to Rio Grande do Sul, which is home to our Rio Grande Industrial Complex and has a strategic role in making these solutions reach the entire country and support the increasing the profitability of rural producers”, comments João Luis Benetti (in the photo above), commercial director of Yara Brasil.

The Rio Grande Complex is the largest and most modern hub for the production, mixing and shipping of fertilizers in Latin America and, this year, it should reach the milestone of 100% of its production capacity. At this level, the fertilizer granulation volume will be 1,2 million tons per year and the distribution, mixing and bagging capacity will be 2,2 million tons/year.

The complex, which received investments of R$2 billion from the company from 2016 to 2021, will meet, for the next 25 years, the demand for nutritional solutions from various agricultural centers, both in the South and Central-West regions (Mato Grosso do Sul and Goiás) and in the Northeast (Maranhão). The logistical ease, with the use of road and waterways, allows the Complex to serve an even wider range of locations.

An example of the plurality of transport modes as one of the Complex's differentiators is the use of cabotage. In 2022, Yara sent in its first operation 15 thousand tons of YaraBasa fertilizers, from Rio Grande to its Mixing Unit in São Luís (MA), thus serving farmers in the Matopiba region (Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia), who had pioneering access to the product. Since then, two other similar operations have brought nutritional solutions to the region and this mode will continue to be a viable option for the company in 2023.

Search for increased profitability of rural producers

With an increase in fertilizer consumption, lines with the capacity to offer greater profitability for rural producers are gaining prominence. Produced at the Yara plant in Rio Grande, the YaraBasa multinutrient fertilizer line is composed of NPK and NP in the same granule, serves crops such as soybeans, corn, wheat, sugar cane and cotton and offers increased productivity for the farmer, allowing, for example, an average profitability of 2,5 sc/ha more in soybeans than a conventional fertilizer.

The search for profitability is also supported by the offer of complete nutritional solutions, such as Yara's SuperSoja program, which integrates products such as the YaraBasa line, the YaraVita biofertilizer line and the company's nutritional recommendation systems at each stage of planting to enhance the farmer's profitability, which can increase the performance of his crop by up to 7,4 bags.