The World Food Program facilitated the fertilizer donation to Dhaka by chartering a transport vessel
Russian fertilizer giant Uralchem announced on Monday that it has completed delivering 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture.
The donation was carried out under the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).
This is the company’s seventh donation in a series of humanitarian deliveries to developing countries since 2022. Uralchem has donated over 220,000 tons of mineral fertilizer to nations facing acute hunger at no cost.
— Embassy of Russia in Bangladesh (@RussEmbDhaka)
More than 400,000 metric tons of Russian fertilizer have remained stuck in several European ports (including those in Latvia and Estonia) since 2022, when Western countries imposed unprecedented sanctions against Moscow.
The goods were released under a Russia-UN agreement on agricultural exports signed in Istanbul in July 2022 as part of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The grain deal collapsed in 2023 after Moscow accused Western powers of failing to uphold their side of the agreement—specifically regarding Russian fertilizer and food exports.
“This humanitarian consignment of potash has arrived in Bangladesh and will now help local farmers reap fruitful harvests,” Uralchem CEO Dmitry Konyaev said.
The initiative aligns with the UN Sustainable Development Goal to “end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture,” Konyaev added.