🇮🇷🇹🇭 The Strait of Hormuz closure is starving the world’s farms of fertilizer, and the FAMINE warnings are getting louder
Shut the strait and the natural gas and urea that become nitrogen fertilizer stop moving too, and most of the world’s crops run on that nitrogen.
War correspondent Michael Yon has tracked it for years, from Germany’s BASF plant to Thailand, which he says imports over 90% of the nitrogen its rice fields swallow, and he warns a shortage in one breadbasket won’t stay put:
“Famines are like wars, like pandemics. They spread.”
The war’s real bill won’t stop at the gas pump, because crops planted without fertilizer come up short at the next harvest, and every grocery aisle feels it.
@Michael_Yon @WeTheBrandon
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Jakub @_Freaknat_ ·
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@MarioNawfal While I agree Hormuz risk exposes fertilizer fragility, I'd add that diversification and renewable ammonia are key—His point of view is also worth considering. @Robert197071



































































