PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Marie K. Thompson
DATE:
April 10, 1998
NEW
FERTILIZER MANUAL RELEASED
 Muscle
Shoals, Alabama (U.S.A.)—The International Fertilizer
Development Center (IFDC) and the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO) recently released the Third Edition
of the Fertilizer Manual, which was published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers.
This new, fully
updated, comprehensive reference on the technology of fertilizer
production contains 22 chapters on fertilizer use, production, and
distribution economics, raw materials, and the status of the
fertilizer industry with demand-supply projections. Also included
are engineering flow diagrams and process requirements for the
primary fertilizer processes including ammonia, urea, phosphates,
potassium products and many others. Environmental considerations are
addressed clearly. Professionals involved in any phase of fertilizer
production, marketing, distribution, or use will find this book
valuable.
The publication of
this edition of the Fertilizer Manual is especially timely in that
the World Food Summit, which was held in 1996, discussed the global
challenges created by a burgeoning population, shrinking land area
available for food production, and mounting food insecurity. The
United Nations forecasts that agricultural output must be tripled if
the 8.5 billion population of the world of 2025 is to be fed; with
increasingly limited land under cultivation, sustainable food
security cannot be achieved without the benefits of intensified
agriculture—the key to alleviating poverty.
The last revision
of the Fertilizer Manual was published in 1979. Since that time
outstanding advances in fertilizer technology have occurred whereby
more energy-efficient processes and reductions in the cost of
production have resulted. This edition of the Fertilizer Manual
provides planners with information on these new advances.
Interested parties
may obtain a copy of the Fertilizer Manual (IFDC-R-11) by placing an
order here via our secure, online shopping cart, or by contacting
the IFDC Purchasing Department, P.O. Box 2040, Muscle Shoals, AL
35662 (U.S.A.); e-mail: purchasing@ifdc.org;
or fax: 256-381-7408. The price of the publication is US $75.00; the
price includes shipping and handling.
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