Farmers and fertilizer marketers in Kano State have described the new Dangote Urea fertilizer as a game changer and a forecast for the expected agricultural revolution in the country.
They said this at the event organized by Dan Hydro Company in Kano to mark the introduction of the fertilizer into the northern market, at the weekend.
Ovee 10 trucks of the fertilizer were delivered in Kano.
Chairman of the Kano State Agro Dealers Association Alhaji Shuaibu Akarami said agro dealers have confidence in Dangote fertilizer as they have in all his products.
“I have checked the product and have found out that it will have no problem penetrating the market. With my experience in agro products, I can authoritatively say the product has met our expectations,” he said.
Head of Operations, Dan- Hydro operations, Hamadi Sekou Drammeh, said the phenomenon of perennial shortage of the fertilizer product will be over in the country.
He the company was going to work with all stakeholders in the agricultural sectors.
Sales Manager of Dan Hydro, Sulaiman Tanko, assured that the product will be sold at a reasonable price that will enable fair competition in the market.
Group Executive Director, (Strategy, Capital Projects & Portfolio Development), Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, said the fertilizer plant which has the capacity to turn out more than 4,500 tonnes of urea per day will conveniently meet the local demand and even produce for exports.
“…this is a rich fertilizer, having 46 per cent nitrogen…the company has the capacity to meet local demand and also export to African countries… 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,” he said.
“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 fertilizer plant is expected to reducing the nation’s fertilizer imports, and generating $400m annual foreign exchange from export to Africa countries.
