For Uralkali, Vietnam is an important market with a lot of potential for growth. Over the past 8 years, the Company has been putting a lot of effort into the promotion of potash fertilisers in collaboration with industry partners and the leading Vietnamese scientific organisations. This involved training farmers in various regions of the country in cutting-edge practices of potash application and demonstrating the positive results of the application of optimised potash nutrition schemes.
Within the framework of the agricultural projects in Vietnam, a number of experiments with a balanced use of potash fertilisers has been conducted on crops, such as oranges, lychee fruit, black pepper, bananas, rice, corn, watermelon, coffee, dragon fruit, cassava, and custard apple. The results of the field trials clearly showed the high agricultural and economic efficiency of balanced potash fertilisation to local crop growers. For example, the application of potash in optimal dosages in orange farming not only resulted in higher yields, but helped to reduce the number of fruits falling off trees, to increase the sugar content and the size of the fruits, and to improve the organoleptic indicators.