The industrial complex also extracted 43,305 tons of phosphate in the same period, which indicates a 26% surge. Esfordi Phosphate Industrial and Mineral Complex is a subsidiary of IMIDRO and Iran’s only producer of phosphate with 36.5% purity. The plant is located in Bafq County of Yazd Province. In addition to phosphate fertilizers for agriculture, phosphorus from rock phosphate is also used in animal feed supplements, food preservatives, anti-corrosion agents, cosmetics, fungicides, ceramics, water treatment and metallurgy.