The "International Fertilizer Industry Association" headquartered in Paris, France was founded in England, 1927 for the purpose of production and marketing of fertilizer; and collecting and providing information about agricultural management in the midst of raising the importance of fertilizer.

In its 60th annual conference, the stress will be put on the following subjects, encouragement of scientific study for the promotion on the production and usage of fertilizer, and the technical cooperation of each company producing fertilizer and its basic materials.

In the mean time, we can find many records of fertilizer through the history of our country, a traditional agricultural one, such as the ways of making fertilizer in "Forestry Economics", written by Hong Man-sun in the reign of Suk-Jong, Cho-Sun Dynasty, who proposed using lime in the cool watered rice field to make seed's germination easier. "Hae-dong Agricultural Document", written by Suh Ho-su of the reign of Jungo-Jo.

The modern agricultural history of producing fertilizer in Korea began with the production of ammonium sulfate in Pusan, 1910, and has reached the stage of production amounting to 1.2 million tons annually, with the facility capable of producing 4 million tons.