There are some seriously scared or envious people posting here all of a sudden
The price is still very low.
Low compared to what? BTC? This whole thing reeks of scam, and it's right in the subject line of every post.
A Real Long Term Currency: 1 Uro = 1 Metric Tonne Urea Fertilizer
The only way 1 URO = 1 MT of Urea is if 1 URO = ~$300. Why would you create a coin that people are mining where it costs about $2 in electricity at the current rates to generate 1 URO? Again, I refer back to Guarantcoin (GTC), where 1 GTC was going to be worth some small amount of actual gold. Supposedly someone had kilograms of gold ready to back the coin... except they didn't and then the coin fizzled. Isn't that strange? I mean, backing a coin with gold would be awesome (Cryptonomicon shout out)! But it doesn't really work when people are generating the coins for essentially free.
If you want to tie a coin to a commodity, you're going to have to do a 100% premine first. Then and only then can you control the price, supply, etc. If they were to create 1 million (or 10 million) URO and declare each was worth 1 MT of Urea, and the only way to buy URO would be to pay the $300 going rate of Urea, maybe -- MAYBE -- it would work. Except no one would be willing to pay that much for a coin unless there was some way to prove it was worth 1 MT of Urea, and so it still fails.
Also: why does anyone involved with the distribution and sale of Urea want to conduct transactions with any cryptocurrency rather than, say, USD? Because it's unjust the way the price fluctuates? Hardly. The problem is supply and demand. If an area wants 20 MT of Urea and only 10 MT is shipped to them, the price will increase. If another area has 50 MT of Urea but only needs 20 MT, the price will drop. The real cost in all of this is the distribution of Urea. It's trivially easy to digitally transfer 1 URO (or 1 BTC or whatever) to another person. Now even supposing they have 1 MT of Urea available, getting it to you is another matter entirely.
Have some popcorn, watch the collapse of the URO scam, and then subscribe to my newsletter and ask me what I think of a coin before investing money into it next time. Then you'll save a lot of heartache at least. Of course, most of the time the advice is simple: don't invest more than you can lose, and don't believe the hype. And stay away from IPOs and premines and things that are "too good to be true", like URO.