Intro

Phosphorus is the strategic key element of the food crop and animal production in agriculture that cannot be substituted. There are no any other materials with economically high P2O5 content (>35%) known other than apatite mineral, which have two major forms, mined phosphate rocks (but this is contaminated with Cadmium and Uranium) or bone char (that is a natural and pure apatite substance). The low toxic metal content phosphate rock resources are already depleted on global level, therefore phosphate is a critical raw material.

The fragile EU agri-food markets already seriously affected by multiple and with cascade effect impacting external factors such as global warming, pollution, loss of fertile soils/biodiversity and significant energy price increase . Additionally, the Covid-19 and the new geopolitical situation together are putting agriculture under extreme pressure with significantly increased fertiliser costs. The price of phosphate rock changed by +315% between mid 2021 and 2023. Due to the high dependence on imports of energy/fertilisers the agri-food sector became vulnerable. In this complex challenge the replacement of the imported Critical Raw Material phosphate rock with high nutrient dense, high quality/safe and EU origin P bio-fertilizers is the most important crucial challenge. The phosphate is recognized by the European Commission as critical raw material in 2023 (EU COM (2023) 160)  

The BIO-NPK-C compound BioPhosphate biofertiliser is a full value alternative for replacement the non-renewable phosphate rock based and chemically processed toxic mineral fertilisers.