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Crop and pasture field trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of sulphur-enhanced
fertilizer produced with Shell Thiogro technology. Recognising the agricultural issue
of sulphur-deficiency in soils, these trials have been conducted in diverse countries,
climates and soil types.
To effectively incorporate these particles In China, a fertilizer producer has noted Incorporation of fast and slow release
into ammonium phosphate and triple a yield increase of 11% in rice sulphur into ammonium phosphate and
superphosphate fertilizer granules in triple superphosphate fertilizers provides
Clovers are important in animal nutrition;
a way that resists breaking up during better-balanced nutrition to crops
a 98% increase in annual clover
transport and application. The sulphur in Shell Thiogro-produced
production with Shell Thiogro-produced
fertilizer has been recorded in fertilizer may result in increased efficiency
temperate Australia of utilisation of the other fertilizer plant
Fertilizer made with Shell nutrients; especially, nitrogen and
Soybean yields increased an average of
Thiogro technology, produced 18% with Shell Thiogro-produced fertilizer
phosphorus
a weighted mean yield in eight field trials in Brazil. In some cash crops, both yield and quality
have increased following Shell Thiogro-
increase of 18%, averaged
produced fertilizer application
over 118 sulphur responsive
In Australia, Shell Thiogro-produced
sites in four countries* 1. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that
70% more food must be produced by 2050 to feed the world’s fertilizer application improved the quantity
growing population.
and quality of animal forage thanks
to the resultant increase in clover content
Laboratory and glasshouse tests have
shown that the micro-fine particle size
of the elemental sulphur readily oxidises
to plant-available sulphate
Collaboration with the best research and
production groups in the various countries
has resulted in reliable, verifiable and
important findings about sulphur.
*Shell Thiogro field trial research, July 2010.
Field Trials have been conducted or are underway in various parts of the world known
for sulphur-deficient soils; Australia, Brazil, China, India and Argentina. We work with
universities, government agencies, larger farming operations and fertilizer producers
(the latter being potential Shell Thiogro technology licensees) to carry out the trials.
Shell has also co-sponsored trials with The Sulphur Institute.
Xingjiang
7,200 Gansu Hebei
Xizang
Anhui
6,600 (Tibet)
Hubei
Sichuan Chongqing Zhejiang
Jiangxi
6,400 Hunan
Fujian
Guizhou
6,200
Yunnan Guangdong
Guangxi
6,000
5,800
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Shell Thiogro field trials include a variety of crops in these locations.
2,700
Goiás
2,600 Minas
Mato Grosso
Gerais
2,500 Do Sul
São Paulo
2,400
Paraná
2,300
Santa Catarina
2,500
New South
2,000 Wales
1,500
Victoria
1,000
500 Tazmania
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MAP Shell Thiogro Shell Thiogro field trials include a variety of crops in these locations.
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