This report is an investigation of the fertilizer situation in Latin America with special emphasis on the region's fertilizer supply/demand conditions, raw materials resources, capability of the region to produce N, P2O4, K2O, and the outlook for expansion of the fertilizer industry.

This bulletin is a collection of abstracts on Fertilizer Marketing selected from those appearing in Fertilizer Abstracts between July 1973 and June 1978. A similar collection was made of the material from January 1968 through June 1973, and is available in Bulletin Y-59. Together the two bulletins contain nearly 2000 abstracts and cover the majority of marketing publications over the past 10.5 years.