When the first flowers show, give the plants some potash fertilizer.

开出第一朵花时，给植株施上钾肥。

Local factories also use the water to get minerals -- potash, bromine, sodium chloride, and magnesium chloride, among others.

当地的工厂也利用水来获取矿物质——钾肥、溴、氯化钠和氯化镁等。

Fertiliser shortages are even harder to cover: new potash mines take 5-10 years to build.

新的钾肥矿需要5-10年才能建成。

Since four-fifths of the world's potash is traded internationally, the impact of price spikes will be felt in every agricultural region in the world, warns Humphrey Knight of cru, a consultancy.

咨询公司CRU的汉弗莱·奈特警告称，由于全球五分之四的钾肥都是国际交易，全球所有农业地区都将感受到钾肥价格飙升的影响。

Most alarming will be the conflict's impact on agriculture worldwide. The region is a big supplier of critical fertiliser components, including natural gas and potash.

最令担忧的将是冲突对全球农业的影响。冲突发生的地区是包括然气和钾肥在内的关键化肥成分的重要供应地。

As Russia, which accounts for 20% of global output, finds it harder to export its own potash, prices are sure to rise further.

占全球总产量20%的俄罗斯发现自己的钾肥出口越来越难，钾肥价格肯定会进一步上涨。

In 2010, Canadian authorities flexed their muscles by using the Investment Canada Act to block BHP's $39 billion bid to acquire potash, a minor of the eponymous fertiliser mineral.

2010年，加拿大当局动用《投资加拿大法》阻止了必和必拓以390收购钾肥矿的企图。

Also, there are a lot of products we can pretty much only get from other countries, like cocoa beans or potash fertilizer or rare earth minerals.

此外， 有许多产品我们几乎只能从其他国家获取，例如可可豆、钾肥或稀土矿物。

Besides BHP's investments in copper and, to a lesser extent, nickel and potash, it has kept its purse strings tight.

除了在铜以及较小程度上的镍和钾肥方面的投资外，必和必拓一直保持着谨慎的资金管理策略。

The traditional railroad franchise is bulk commodities that are too heavy to be carried cost-effectively by truck, coal, potash, and grain, for example.

传统的铁路专营权是大宗商品，例如煤炭、钾肥和谷物， 这些商品太重而无法通过卡车经济有效地运输。

Interestingly enough, some anthropologists believe one reason for the endemic warfare between tribes was the need to capture slaves in order to give them away at a potash.

有趣的是，一些类家认为，部落之间发生地方性战争的原因之一是需要捕获奴隶，以便将他们送出钾肥。

Unfortunately, it required a huge amount of lumber to create just a small quantity of potash.

不幸的是，它需要大量的木材 来制造少量的钾肥。

That should give you an idea of how important potash was.

这应该能让你了解钾肥的重要性。

There are 2 billion tons of potash in the Paradox Basin alone, and at an average price of $330 a metric ton, the potash harvested here could potentially generate billions of dollars.

仅在 Paradox 盆地就有 20 吨钾肥 ， 平均价格为每吨 330 ， 这里收获的钾肥可能会产生 数十的收入。

Sites discovered near Searles Lake, California, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and Moab, Utah, became potash paydirt.

在塞尔斯湖附近发现的遗址, 加利福尼亚州、新墨西哥州卡尔斯巴德、和犹他州摩押 成为钾肥宝地。

It was for an improved process for making potash.

这是为了改进钾肥的制造工艺。

The demand for potash was so high that across Europe and the eastern U.S., forests were decimated.

钾肥的需求量如此之高 以至于整个欧洲和国东部， 森林被大量砍伐。

The downside was, in 1910, just four year before the start of World War I, the Germans cut off potash exports to the world.

不利的是，1910 年， 第一次世界大战爆发前四年， 德国切断了向世界出口钾肥。

Germany established a near monopoly in the potash supply.

德国几乎垄断了钾肥供应。

That is the potash, and they scrape it up with these vehicles.

这就是钾肥， 他们用这些车辆把它刮起来。