As part of an effort to strengthen its position in Latin America and promote its new products, Uralchem Group held a series of training events for local agricultural producers.

The training programme included educational workshops and field days. The workshops presented the Group’s product portfolio and explained how specific products can be efficiently applied to local crops. The field days involved farm visits, during which Uralchem’s specialists demonstrated test-proven advantages of complex granular fertilisers over multi-nutrient blends through the example of the region’s highest-margin crops like maize, rice, sugarcane, coffee, and banana.

Sustainable agriculture is a key element of Uralchem Group’s ESG Strategy and includes promotion of responsible farming practices and implementation of agronomic literacy programmes for customers, partners, and distributors. The ultimate goal of these activities is to enable farmers all over the world to apply the Group’s products to increase crop yields while preserving soil fertility.

Irina Shustova, Uralchem Head of Product Marketing Department:

Countries of Latin America have extensive soil resources suitable for crop farming. However, to grow crops properly and efficiently, farmers require effective and technologically advanced fertilisers, and domestic producers do not have enough capacity to meet this demand. The population of the region needs high-quality food products, and our mission is to help create a world without hunger. The events held by our specialists also became an important educational tool to improve agronomic literacy.

Uralchem JSC (a part of the Uralchem Group) is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of nitrogen and compound fertilisers. The Company’s production assets are located in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region, Kirov Region, Moscow Region and Perm Region.

Uralchem Group is a leading global producer of mineral fertilisers and chemical products. Its key assets include three major Russian companies — Uralchem JSC, Uralkali PJSC, and TOAZ JSC — with a cumulative production capacity of about 25 million tonnes. The number of people employed by the Uralchem Group is approximately 38,000.