'Farmers are staring down the barrel': Researchers warn agricultural industry facing fertiliser cost timebomb

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Fresh analysis from ECIU and University of Edinburgh warns that escalating prices of fertilisers is having knock-on effect on farmers and global food security

The soaring costs of fertiliser is set to have a huge impact on farming businesses this year, fuelling fears that an additional 100 million people globally could be put at risk of undernourishment...

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