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The bottleneck on large-scale farming is always nitrogen fertilizer. The only adequate source of nitrogen is ammonia manufactured from petroleum. So Brazil's
by blacksqr 3y ago
The bottleneck on large-scale farming is always nitrogen fertilizer.
The only adequate source of nitrogen is ammonia manufactured from petroleum.
So Brazil's chief challenge will be obtaining adequate ammonium fertilizers.
- namaria 3y agoBrazilian soils are phosphate poor. I believe that's typical of tropical soils. So they have a mineral bottleneck, that can't be solved by pumping energy into the supply chain.