CALCIUM NITRATE BASED FERTILIZER

摘要

Homogeneous calcium nitrate based fertilizers containing sulphur, and method for their preparations. Solid gypsum and/or a slow reacting sulphate mineral is mixed with melted calcium nitrate fertilizer at a temperature of 90-110 DEG C and kept at this temperature for 3-15 minutes and subsequently particulated at a temperature of 80-110 DEG C. The particulation by prilling is performed at 95-110 DEG C and the particulation by granulation is performed at 90-110 DEG C. The fertilizer is a homogeneous composition of a calcium nitrate fertilizer and gypsum and/or a slow reacting sulphate mineral comprising 0.1-5.0 weight % SO4-S, 14-19 weight % water soluble calcium and 16-21 weight % total calcium, and 0-3.0 weight % water soluble magnesium. The fertilizer may contain microamounts of Se and/or Co, and/or micronutrients like Mn, Cu, B and Zn.