Potash: Relationships

Every element and industry that Potash is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

• Phosphate rock: Phosphate and potash are the P and K of fertiliser: almost all of both goes to farms, neither has a substitute as a plant nutrient, and India buys both mostly from abroad under one subsidy scheme, so their demand and policy move together even though their mines are in different countries. (researched)
• DAP and MAP: Their prices have moved together.
• Food and beverage processing: Food and beverage processing depends on potash.
• Herbicides: Their prices have moved together.
• Maize: Their prices have moved together.
• Natural gas: Their prices have moved together.
• Nickel-based batteries: Their prices have moved together.
• Nitrogen (ammonia): Their prices have moved together.
• Potatoes: Their prices have moved together.
• Salt: Their prices have moved together.
• Textiles and leather: Textiles and leather depends on potash.
• Tobacco: Their prices have moved together.