FG allays fears of shortage, high cost of fertilizer

The Federal Government’s Presidential Fertiliser Initiative, PFI, has said that Nigerian farmers should person nary people to interest implicit the shortage oregon precocious outgo of fertilizer.

The Director of Presidential Fertiliser Initiative, Dr. Armstrong Takang, said the Federal Government secured aboriginal procurement designed to shield Nigeria from outer shocks.

He said that the Tinubu medication was capable to unafraid aboriginal orders and cheaper fertiliser earlier the situation successful Iran, thereby shielding Nigerian farmers from planetary situation portion respective countries crossed Africa grapple with fertiliser shortages and rising input costs triggered by caller planetary disruptions.

According to him, the Federal Government has secured Nigeria’s fertiliser proviso for the 2026 bedewed play and besides saved the state implicit $42 cardinal up of highest planting.

“The latest disruptions, linked to escalating tensions affecting captious planetary shipping routes, person pushed up freight costs and driven increases successful prices of cardinal fertiliser inputs.

“These see Granular Ammonium Sulphate, GAS, Diammonium Phosphate, DAP, and Muriate of Potash, MOP. Across aggregate markets, proviso gaps are emerging, leaving farmers uncertain astir availability and pricing up of the planting season,” helium noted.

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