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Australia acts to protect winter crops with emergency Indonesian fertiliser deal

An Australian company will import 250,000 tonnes of urea fertiliser from Indonesia in the coming months, easing fears of a shortage that would crimp food production, Canberra said on Friday. Australia is one of the worldโ€™s biggest exporters of crops including wheat, barley and canola but relies on fertiliser imports that are threatened by โ€Œthe war on Iran, which has cut supply from the Middle East, a major urea producer. The price of urea, a source of nitrogen that fuels plant growth, has risen...