Beijing is the top producer and it controls exports of the primary raw material for fertilizers under a quota system India has urged China to ease export curbs on urea as the Middle East conflict continues, threating to impact fertilizer production, Bloomberg has reported. Beijing is the world’s top producer of urea, and controls exports under a quota system, though it has yet to set the level of outbound shipments for 2026, the media outlet said. The conflict in the Middle East has impacted