NEW TYPE OF FERTILIZER IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004400890010-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 7, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION SEM14T
VNTR INTELEtENCE AGENCY
INr?RmkfiON REPORT
COUNTRY Fast Germany
SUBJECT New Type of Fertilizer in East Germany
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DATE DISTR. 7 September 1954
NO, OF PACES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
On 10 March 1954, the VEB Zementwerk (cement plant) Steudnitz in Dornburj
Steudnitz on the Sasle River started the delivery of a newly developed fertilizer,
a sinter phosphate containinz 16 to 19 percent of P205 which was soluble in
citric acid. Experiments with the new fertilizer, which has the same properties
as the Rhenania phosphate, were completed. The new fertilizer will be tried
on a lar;;e scale on nationalized and cooperative farma.2
1. Rhenania phosphate contains approximately 12 percent of P205, 3 to 4 percent
of K20 and 20 to 30 percent CaO.
2. Following the resumption of the production of sinter phosphate, the Zementwerk
Steudnitz which previously bad belon;ed to the RV Baustoffindustric (construction:
materials industry) was subordinated to the Chemical Department of the
Ministry of Heavy industry.
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Approved For Release 2007/07/12 : CIA-RDP80-0081OA004400890010-8