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Agriculture · Q364

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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 364

Q364

Which country have monopoly in P deposits?

A.
Morocco
Answer
B.
South Africa
C.
Russia
D.
Pakistan

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Morocco is the country that has a monopoly in P deposits.
Morocco claims 75% of the planet’s known reserves of phosphorus, an essential ingredient in commercial fertilizer. It gives the North African country a near-monopoly on the multibillion-dollar global trade of the mineral mined from phosphate rock, with clients on every continent.