MOSCOW, May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
PhosAgro (Moscow Exchange: PHOR) (LSE: PHOR), one of the
world's leading vertically-integrated phosphate-based fertilizer
producers, acted as one of the partners of the Global Symposium of
Soil Pollution, which was held at the headquarters of the Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (the "FAO") in
Rome, Italy in early May 2018.
Together with PhosAgro, financial support for the FAO's Global
Symposium on Soil Pollution was provided by the Russian Federation, the European Commission,
the Swiss Confederation and the International Fertilizer
Association.
PhosAgro CEO, IFA Vice President for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and President of the Russian
Fertilizer Producers' Association, Andrey Guryev,
participated in the Symposium, together with leading
scientists, policy-makers, private sector and civil society
representatives as well as other stakeholders, was be the first
step in implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil
Management and sought to establish an agenda for action to preserve
the world's soils, including agricultural soils that may become
polluted by fertilizers that contain potentially-harmful heavy
metals like cadmium.
According to the FAO, soil pollution, including from heavy
metals like cadmium, nickel and arsenic, affects food security by
decreasing crop output and quality.
PhosAgro CEO, Andrey Guryev said, "Thanks
to the joint activities launched through the Global Symposium on
Soil Pollution as it would hopefully provide a structure that gives
soil stakeholders throughout the value chain the right incentives
to contribute to protecting soils, bringing sustainable benefits in
terms of human health, agricultural production and rational use of
resources by major fertilizer producers like PhosAgro. As a
producer of high-quality mineral fertilizers that are naturally low
in pollutants like cadmium, Phosagro is particularly committed to
engaging in a constructive way around FAO's work on preventing and
mitigating soil pollution, awareness raising and improved
fertilizer management."
"We believe that the fertilizer industry can and must play a
role in sustainable and safe agricultural production by making it
easier for farmers, especially those engaged in intensive farming
practices, to efficiently grow crops without contributing to the
accumulation of pollutants in soils."
PhosAgro Deputy CEO, Siroj Loikov spoke at the forum,
noting that "PhosAgro and the fertilizer industry play a key role
in delivering plant nutrients for agricultural soils that grow the
food we all eat. When produced and used properly, these fertilizers
help farmers to grow safe and healthy food in a sustainable way,
and to meet growing demand as the global population increases.
Together, we must continuously engage in developing new
technologies and production techniques, and conduct research that
will improve the industry's production processes and products."
About PhosAgro:
PhosAgro (http://www.phosagro.ru) is one of the world's
leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers
in terms of production volumes of phosphate-based fertilizers and
high-grade phosphate rock with a P2O5 content
of not less than 39% (according to IFA, Fertecon and CRU).
PhosAgro's main products include phosphate rock, over 35 grades of
fertilizers, feed phosphates, ammonia, and sodium tripolyphosphate,
which are used by customers in 100 countries spanning all of the
world's inhabited continents. The Company's priority markets
outside of Russia and the CIS are
Latin America, Europe and Asia.
PhosAgro's shares are traded on the Moscow Exchange, and global
depositary receipts ("GDRs") for shares trade on the London Stock
Exchange (under the ticker PHOR). Since 1
June 2016, the Company's GDRs have been included in the MSCI
Russia and MSCI Emerging Markets indexes.
SOURCE PhosAgro