Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Potassium (K)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Potassium (K)
Potash plumps up fruit, vegetables and grains, and the potassium it contains is an essential nutrient. Yet India is completely dependent on imports of this critical fertiliser to feed its population.
Presenter Justin Rowlatt visits a farm on the Ganges plains to see how this mineral is used, and speaks to the head of the national importer Indian Potash Ltd about their efforts to promote its use by farmers.
We also hear from Paul Burnside, analyst at CRU Group, how a bust-up in Belarus has helped turn potash into a global buyers' market.
Meanwhile Prof Andrea Sella of University College London recreates everyone's favourite school chemistry experiment, with some unexpected consequences...
(Picture: Indian labourer carries bananas in Chennai; Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)
View all episodes
By BBC World Service
4.7
137137 ratings
Potash plumps up fruit, vegetables and grains, and the potassium it contains is an essential nutrient. Yet India is completely dependent on imports of this critical fertiliser to feed its population.
Presenter Justin Rowlatt visits a farm on the Ganges plains to see how this mineral is used, and speaks to the head of the national importer Indian Potash Ltd about their efforts to promote its use by farmers.
We also hear from Paul Burnside, analyst at CRU Group, how a bust-up in Belarus has helped turn potash into a global buyers' market.
Meanwhile Prof Andrea Sella of University College London recreates everyone's favourite school chemistry experiment, with some unexpected consequences...
(Picture: Indian labourer carries bananas in Chennai; Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)
More shows like Elements
View all
This American Life
91,061 Listeners
Radiolab
43,923 Listeners
The Moth
27,103 Listeners
99% Invisible
26,270 Listeners
Global News Podcast
7,728 Listeners
More or Less
872 Listeners
Newshour
1,058 Listeners
In Our Time
5,531 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,796 Listeners
HistoryExtra podcast
3,216 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,809 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,954 Listeners
No Such Thing As A Fish
4,874 Listeners
Discovery
966 Listeners
Curious Cases
766 Listeners
Unexpected Elements
364 Listeners
Twenty Thousand Hertz
4,201 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,218 Listeners
The Missing Cryptoqueen
1,037 Listeners
Americast
769 Listeners
The Bomb
1,035 Listeners
The Rest Is Entertainment
933 Listeners