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Phosphate fertiliser

Hand with Phosphorus fertiliser and black background.

Phosphorus fertiliser for agriculture is obtained by mining phosphate rock.

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Rights: Farming Futures UK
Published: 30 July 2013Size: 293.21 KB
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