Argus Asia Fertilizer

• Increasing adoption of AVF in Asia: What does this mean for producers?
• Navigating the different regulatory guidelines for biostimulants
• Future prospects for water soluble fertilizers and biostimulants 
• Strategies for encouraging wider use of added-value fertilizers 

• What is the scale of market opportunity for specialty fertilizers in India?
• Analysis of the economic and environmental benefits that added-value fertilizer can bring
• Balancing environmental sustainability and commercial development
• Understanding customer demand for specialty fertilisers in India

• Impact of technology and agribusiness
• How can Fert Tech help to improve crop yields?
• Are Blockchain, AI, digitalisation or IoT having a real impact on fertilizer market development

• Drivers of demand and future growth in coated fertilizers and nitrification inhibitors
• Perspectives from major producers on the research and investments into new materials such as nanoparticles
• New fertilizer standards and products to meet China’s agronomic, economic, and environmental goals
• Develop your company’s own potential to enter China’s EEF market for 2025
  
  Panelists:
  Shang Zhaocong, Deputy Director, China National Center for Quality Supervision and Test of Chemical Fertilizers (Shanghai)
  Xu Feng, General Manager, International Trade, Anhui Huilong Agriculture Means of Production Co. Ltd
  Dai Feng, CTO, Zhejiang Aofutuo Chemical Co.,Ltd

• Exploring innovative business solutions to integrate technology and agronomy
• Ability to respond optimally to weather conditions giving real time recommendations
• Access to customised data to specific needs of individual fields and crops

• Global and Asian economic overview  
• Macroeconomic forecast for the coming five years  
• Longer term outlook on commodities supply and demand balances  
• International affairs and policy changes and their implications on the fertilizer market  
• Asia’s main fertilizer export markets’ growth and trends: Latin America and Brazil

• Nitrogen market changes: urea futures listed, challenges and solutions for environmental protection
• How are Chinese companies adjusting capacities to the rate of production? 
• China’s fertilizer tariff removal - its profound impact on NPK, SOP and phosphates
  
  Moderator:
  Lynn Wang, Senior Analyst, Argus
  
  Panelists:
  Li Guang, Secretary General, China Phosphate Fertilizer Industry Association
  Wang Liqing, Secretary General, China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association
  Chen Guofu, Secretary General – Potash Branch, China Inorganic Salt Industry Association

• What does the pathway to digitalisation look like for the fertilizer sector?
• Sinochem’s B2B platform: Latest update since launch in July 2019
• Unlocking the value at scale and ensuring cooperation across the ecosystem 

• Global trade overview - price forecast, policy changes and production capacity
• Current development of China’s urea futures since its launch in August 2019
• Coal and natural gas prices and how they impacts urea output

• Better management of rapidly changing prices  
• Industry leading risk management  
• Physical delivery for contract  

• Would low palm oil prices lead to further cutbacks in fertilizer usage?
• Strategies for fertilizer producers for Malaysian and Indonesian markets

• Fertilizer distribution flows and logistics costs
• Implications of changing agricultural trends on fertilizer demand
• Production forecasts of main crops in Brazil

•  Recent changes and improvements in the Indian fertilizer subsidy programme
• Is the fertilizer market open to greater competition?
• What developments are being made towards urea self-sufficiency in India?

• What are the main challenges to achieving international harmonisation?
• Control measures: Balancing the need to prevent fraudulent and harmful products without impeding product innovation
• Harmonisation and elimination of barriers

• How to improve resistance and quality of crops
• Different and customised technologies to benefit nutrient efficiency, tolerance to abiotic stress and crop quality

• Implications of environmental, economic and social developments on the market and prices
• Special focus on Brazil’s fertilizer consumption and India’s market demand  

• How the industry consolidation will affect the market prices
• What are the main opportunities and challenges to overcome?
• Asia processed phosphates capacities and implications on the global supply
  
  

• Chinese potash demand in coming years
• New and worldwide players due to new projects
• Indian MOP demands
• Where global import growth will be coming from in the next few  years

• Market volatility in AS, DAP, NPK 
• Coal and nature gas prices and impact on the raw materials
• NPK price forecast in the next 2-5 years 
• Global demand and supply changes
• New technology biological controls, formulations and optimises efficient production  
  
  Panellists:
  Liu Xiaoxia, Deputy Vice President, Shindoo Chemi-Industry, Wintrue
  Zhao Chengyun, Vice President, Xinyangfeng Agricultural Technology
  Zhai Jidong, Vice President, Kingenta Group
  
  

• Main environmental impacts associated with PG     
• Best practices of the “wet acid method” of phosphate acid production
• Which technologies could increase PG utilisation?

• The need to improve efficiency and sustainability in fertilizer production
• What approaches have been taken to strengthen environmental protection during the production process?
• How can the fertilizer industry further increase its accountability and sustainability?
  
  

• International trade flows  
• SOP capacities  
• Supply drivers 
• New projects 

• Sulphur production and sales
• Sulphur exportation and distribution
• Logistics: ports and terminals

• Regional production trends
• International supply and demand trends
• Gas production developments