tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post6808912392792023994..comments2024-03-28T11:30:20.005-05:00Comments on El Salvador Perspectives: High fertilizer prices impact El Salvador's coffee fincasTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02452039674856298357noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-84147435223935926642009-10-10T10:53:26.220-05:002009-10-10T10:53:26.220-05:00The matter should be less problematic for creative...The matter should be less problematic for creative farmers who find a way to work in a more organic way. Chickens generate great fertilizer, and eat some pests while they are at it. I've known farmers who reduced their production costs and the use of fertilizer dramatically, by changing their farm from a monoculture of trees, to a more broadly populated farm. this reduces the countries dependence on outside products as well... therefore will never fly on a huge scale.Nanellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11555282060316658629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-28778801316773799742009-10-10T10:52:26.117-05:002009-10-10T10:52:26.117-05:00The matter should be less problematic for creative...The matter should be less problematic for creative farmers who find a way to work in a more organic way. Chickens generate great fertilizer, and eat some pests while they are at it. I've known farmers who reduced their production costs and the use of fertilizer dramatically, by changing their farm from a monoculture of trees, to a more broadly populated farm. this reduces the countries dependence on outside products as well... therefore will never fly on a huge scale.Nanellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11555282060316658629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9177745.post-43704280808167691942008-08-13T23:53:00.000-05:002008-08-13T23:53:00.000-05:00Most nitrogen fertilizers are now manufactured usi...Most nitrogen fertilizers are now manufactured using <B>natural gas</B>.<BR/><BR/>El Salvador has no chance whatsoever of locally manufacturing these types of fertilizers because there is no LNG re-gasification plant nor sea terminal, so even if someone wanted to set up a local fertilizer plant, they would not be able to do it. No LNG tankers for El Salvador!<BR/><BR/>Cutuco Energy wanted to build such a terminal and re-gasification plant.<BR/><BR/>What happened to it? Don't know, it is probable that the surge in LNG prices killed the project before the first stone was laid.<BR/><BR/>Of course, if MARN hadn't taken over 18 months <I>to even acknowledge receipt of the permit application</I>, the plant might have been built in 2007 before the price rally.<BR/><BR/>Could it be that MARN is the entity that ends up killing the coffee crop in El Salvador?El-Visitadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823897085882597971noreply@blogger.com