Mexico | Fertilizer imports rose 18.2%

In January 2025, Mexican fertilizer purchases amounted to 187 thousand 600 metric tons, an increase of 18.2 percent compared to 158 thousand 700 tons of the same month of 2024.

Data from the National Customs Agency of Mexico compiled by the Agricultural Market Consulting Group (GCMA) reveal that compared to the volume of December 2024 (82 thousand tons), the increase is 128 percent.

The remarkable increase is due to a combination of government incentives, the simplification of commercial processes and the preparation for the next agricultural cyclesaid the private body.

Approximately 65 percent of the fertilizers consumed in Mexico are imported, according to GCMA.

In 2022, given the constant increase in fertilizer imports and their increase, then President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that the rehabilitation of forgotten plants would be accelerated since 1999 in order to double or triple the national production to double or triple.

At the beginning of this year, President Claudia Sheinbaum led the beginning of the National Welfare Fertilizers Program, which seeks to deliver to 2 million 62 thousand 239 peasants from all over the country one million tons of supplies.

The Government will deliver free and intermediaries free fertilizers to small -scale agricultural producers, which is also a right embodied in the Constitution.

Prices go down

Among the fertilizers with greater demand are potassium chloride, triple 17 complex, phosphonitrate and ammonium sulfate. In contrast, urea purchases, potassium sulfate, calcium nitrate and monoamonic phosphate decreased, and no diamonic phosphate revenues were reported.

Despite the increase in import volume, fertilizer prices (with the exception of urea) have fallen on average 38.7 percent due to low demand.