Hassett said the US has “established licences for Venezuela to produce more fertiliser" and has held discussions with Morocco. The administration has been engaged “as an insurance policy against disruption", he said.
(March 17): The Trump administration has moved to locate backup sources of fertilisers for American farmers at the start of the planting season after the Iran war shut down a key source of supply.
“We’ve been all over the fertiliser problem,” White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said on CNBC Tuesday. “I’m not saying that we can eliminate what disruption there is so far but we can minimise it for sure.”
