Article #260113

South China Morning Post - World News

South China Morning Post - World News

Title War on Iran threatens Asia’s food supply as fertiliser prices surge Source South China Morning Post - World News
Description How does a missile strike on a Qatari gas plant end up raising the price of rice in Bangladesh? The answer is fertiliser, an unglamorous commodity that nevertheless sustains much of what the world eats. Qatar burns natural gas to produce ammonia. Ammonia is converted into urea. Urea goes into the ground and out of the ground comes grain. Disrupt the first step, as Iran did when it struck QatarEnergy’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing facility on March 1, and the consequences travel along...
Link https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3346201/war-iran-threatens-asias-food-supply-fertiliser-prices-surge?utm_source=rss_feed Published At 2026-03-11 04:00:14 (3 weeks ago)
Created At 2026-03-11 04:02:19 Updated At 2026-03-11 04:02:19