Tambuwal said this yesterday, at the groundbreaking of OCP Africa’s $13 million Sokoto Agricultural Centre of Excellence comprising a fertilizer blending plant with a production capacity of 200,000 metric tonnes per annum and training facilities for farmers, fertilizer blenders and others in the agricultural value chain.
OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the world’s leader in the phosphate industry and its derivatives, OCP Group, said the blending plant, which becomes operational in July 2021, has the capability to blend NPK with micronutrients. The Deputy Managing Director, OCP Africa Fertilizers Nigeria Ltd., Caleb Usoh, listed facilities hosted in the plant to include, modern NPK fertilizer blending equipment, process building/warehouse, administrative building, trailer park, other ancillary facilities and a one-stop shop for farmers to access training and all farm inputs.
He explained that siting the plant in Sokoto will strengthen and expand the relationship between the company and the government and people.