MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. In the first half of 2025, Russia increased fertilizer supplies to India by 20%, to 2.5 million tons, increasing its share in the country's imports of this product to record 33%, the head of the Russian Fertilizer Producers Association (RAFP) Andrey Guryev told reporters.

"Overall, in the first half of 2025, supplies from Russia increased by 0.4 million tons, or 20%, to 2.5 million tons. The share of Russian fertilizers in India's total fertilizer imports in the first half of the year increased to a record 33%. That means that every third ton of fertilizers imported by India is from Russia," he said.

Guryev explained that the growth occurred primarily due to an increase in supplies of phosphorus-containing fertilizers.

"After the introduction of Western sanctions, India, as a country friendly to Russia, became the leader in terms of the growth dynamics of Russian fertilizer supplies," the head of RAFP added.

Russia is a key global exporter of complex NPK-fertilizers to India, the share of domestic producers in the total import of this type of fertilizer in the country is 89%. According to Guryev, Russian fertilizer producers have also overfulfilled the task set before them to meet the demand for Russian fertilizers from Indian farmers by one and a half times, having supplied 1.5 million tons of products to India in December 2024 - February 2025 alone.