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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by deepsun on Saturday March 26, 2022 @11:27AM (#30812658)
30% of world supply of fertilizer (Ka-based) comes from Soligorsk -- city in Belarus, dictatorship country that helps Russia to attack Ukraine (provides it's territory, transportation, railroad services, airport services, fuel services to Russian troops.
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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by brador on Saturday March 26, 2022 @02:54PM (#30814295)
What is so special about this place that it makes so much of the worlds fertiliser supply? Why can’t a different place do it?
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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by deepsun on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:10AM (#30818600)
The salt mines.

For analogy -- what is so special about Klondike and gold, why can't a different place do it?

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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by HWR_14 on Saturday March 26, 2022 @09:11PM (#30816820)
You can build new factories, but it takes time.
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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by deepsun on Sunday March 27, 2022 @04:10AM (#30818604)
There are almost no factories, only mines.
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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by HWR_14 on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:02AM (#30828940)
I thought Belarus imported the Ka for the fertilizer from elsewhere. Is that not the case?
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Re:War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe on the Way with Solu... by deepsun on Monday March 28, 2022 @02:04PM (#30833551)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaruskali

Corrections to my post:

- 20% of world supply actually

- K, not Ka

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