Long-awaited Dangote Urea Fertilizer is finally available all over Nigeria as the company strives to ensure this product gets to everyone that needs it.
Gatekeepers News reports that the management of Dangote Urea Fertilizer in its bid to make the product available all over Nigeria has ensured that no less than 120 trucks leave its Lagos Plant daily.
The Urea Fertilizer plant was built to tap into Nigeria’s demand for fertilizer, a critical component of achieving food sufficiency for Africa’s most populous country.
The Plant is expected to manufacture 3 million metric tonnes of urea per annum to reduce Nigeria’s fertilizer imports, and generating $400m annual foreign exchange from export to Africa countries.
Group Executive Director, (Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development), Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, said the plant which can turn out over 4,500 tonnes of urea daily will conveniently meet the local demand and even produce for exports.
“Currently the demand is less than 1 million tonnes and we alone can produce 3 million tonnes, so we can easily meet local demand and also produce for export to other West African countries.”
The company will also support the farmers with training on the application of the fertilizer and even establish laboratories across the country for proper soil examination.
“The uniqueness of this plant, apart from the fact that we are producing is the focus on farmers’ support, on training, education, development as we are now establishing laboratories across the country and even mobile laboratories where we can go drive around and take soil samples for proper examination to effectively grow the agricultural outputs across the country.”
The Dan-Hydro fertilizer Company in Kano which took delivery of the first batch of trucks in Kano said the timing and strategy for the introduction came at the right time.
Head of operations, Dan-Hydro operations Mr Hamadi Sekou Drammeh said the Dangote fertilizer conforms to all set standard required by the regulatory agencies.
He said the phenomenon of perennial shortage of fertilizer product will be over in the country.
He noted that as part of its public enlightenment plan, the company was going to work with all stakeholders in the agricultural sectors.
Similarly, the Sales Manager of Dan Hydro Mr Sulaiman Tanko assured that the product will be sold at a reasonable price that will enable fair competition in the market.
