Western Saharan phosphate 'critical' to covid recovery - Ravensdown

Western Saharan phosphate 'critical' to covid recovery - Ravensdown
Brent Melville
Fertiliser cooperative Ravensdown says it should be “congratulated not castigated” for keeping the lines of supply open for critical phosphate rock into New Zealand during the covid-19 global crisis. The farmer cooperative, which together with Ballance Agri-Nutrients, forms a duopoly of companies importing  the 'agriculturally essential' rock used as fertiliser into the country, was at the receiving end of action by maritime workers at Lyttelton Port on Wednesday morning. The Rail and Maritime Transport Union members presented a letter of...

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