Central Europe

Poland accounts for about 45% of the region's total fertilizer consumption, Romania for 12%, Hungary for 12% and the Czech Republic for 10%.

During the 20 years up to 1980, fertilizer consumption in the countries of Central Europe increased regularly and strongly. Then, from 1980 to 1990, the consumption of all three nutrients stabilized as optimum levels were reached. Total nutrient consumption in the region fell from over 8 million tonnes in 1989 to about 3 Mt in 1993. Since then fertilizer consumption in the region has fluctuated between 3.2 and 3.6 million tonnes nutrient p.a..