Development of Potting Compost containing Phosphate Fertilizer for Wet-Rice"Seeding Box Rinta"

Chisso Corporation (President: Shunichi Okada, Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has developed potting compost containing phosphate fertilizer for wet-rice (trade name: 'Seeding Box Rinta') including a phosphate component in raising seedling potting compost, and Chisso Asahi Fertilizer Co., Ltd. has started its sales.

Chisso Asahi Fertilizer Co., Ltd. has already sold fertilizer for wet-rice (trade name: 'Seeding Box Makase') which may be manured at the time of raising seedling of nitrogen and potassium components worth for a full-scale rice field and save labor in additional manuring until harvesting at the full-scale rice field, and has got good reputation progressed in prevailing mainly in the Tohoku district. However, it is required to additionally manure phosphate fertilizer to the full-scale rive field, because the phosphate component is not included.

The 'Seeding Box Rinta' has been on sale recently is not only phosphate fertilizer for manuring to seeding box, but unprecedented entirely new type goods combined with a bed soil function. By using 'Seeding Box Rinta' and 'Seeding box Makase' at the same time, it is not necessary at all to additionally manure to the full-scale rice field. Therefore, it is possible to reduce dramatically load of every wet-rice farmer. (a drawing attached)

We had succeeded in world's first commercial production of ammonium sulfate fertilizer by the Casale process for ammonia synthesis. Moreover, we has registered Japan's first coated nitrogen fertilizer (trade name: 'MEISTER ®') as a fertilizer, and has created and expanded the market. Thus, we have contributed development of agriculture in Japan and we will continue our efforts to serve every farmer by developing new products.