TECHNICAL REPORT

Fertilizer Technical Working Groups

2018 Fertilizer Statistics Validation Workshop
Ghana and Nigeria

13th – 14th March, 2019 – Prampram, Ghana

13th – 14th March, 2019 – Prampram, Ghana

AfricaFertilizer.org is a joint initiative led by IFDC, in partnership

with AFAP, IFA, FAO, and the Africa Union to facilitate exchange
of information about soil fertility, fertilizers and good agricultural
practices in Africa
Table of Contents
1 Background ................................................................................................................................................ 1
2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 2
2.1 Update on current programs and activities ........................................................................................ 2
2.1.1 AfricaFertilizer.org ....................................................................................................................... 2
2.1.2 CountrySTAT (Ghana) ................................................................................................................... 3
2.1.3 CountrySTAT (Nigeria) .................................................................................................................. 3
2.1.4 2013-2017 Fertilizer Trade Statistics Overview ........................................................................... 3
2.1.5 Presentation by West Africa Fertilizer Association (WAFA) ........................................................ 5
2.1.6 Group Work Session to analyze 2018 Import and Export Data ................................................... 5
3 Results of 2018 fertilizer statistics review and validation.......................................................................... 6
3.1 Ghana .................................................................................................................................................. 7
3.1.1 Fertilizer Production..................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.2 Fertilizer Imports .......................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.3 Fertilizer Exports ........................................................................................................................ 10
3.1.4 Fertilizer Apparent Consumption............................................................................................... 10
3.1.5 Planting for Food and Jobs 2019 ................................................................................................ 10
3.1.6 Fertilizer Regulation in Ghana - PPRSD ...................................................................................... 11
3.1.7 Ghana Census of Agriculture...................................................................................................... 12
3.2 Nigeria ............................................................................................................................................... 12
3.2.1 Fertilizer Production................................................................................................................... 13
3.2.2 Fertilizer Imports ........................................................................................................................ 13
3.2.3 Fertilizer Exports ........................................................................................................................ 14
3.2.4 Fertilizer Apparent Consumption............................................................................................... 15
3.2.5 FEPSAN update on Nigeria Presidential Fertilizer Initiative ....................................................... 15
3.2.6 FMARD / FISS.............................................................................................................................. 16
3.3 Analysis of Fertilizer Apparent Consumption ................................................................................... 16
3.4 Fertilizer Use by Crop (FUBC) ............................................................................................................ 17
3.5 Issues and concerns of the private sector ........................................................................................ 18
4 Workshop Recommendations.................................................................................................................. 18
4.1 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 19
5 Annexes .................................................................................................................................................... 20
5.1 List of Participants ............................................................................................................................. 20
5.2 Workshop Agenda............................................................................................................................. 22
5.3 Terms of Reference ........................................................................................................................... 23

List of tables
Table 1 : Number of participants at the workshop ....................................................................................... 2
Table 2 : List of participants from Ghana ...................................................................................................... 7
Table 3 : Fertilizer imports in Ghana 2016 - 2018......................................................................................... 8
Table 4 : Ghana NPK imports per volume, 2018 ........................................................................................... 9
Table 5 : Ghana 2018 fertilizer statistics summary table ............................................................................ 10
Table 6 : List of participants from Nigeria ................................................................................................... 13
Table 7 : Urea production volumes, 2016 - 2018........................................................................................ 13
Table 8 : Fertilizer imports in Nigeria 2016 - 2018...................................................................................... 14
Table 9 : Urea export volumes, 2016 - 2018 ............................................................................................... 15
Table 10 : Nigeria 2018 fertilizer statistics summary table......................................................................... 15

List of figures
Figure 1 : Chart of top 2018 fertilizer imports in Ghana ............................................................................... 9
Figure 2 : Chart of top 2018 fertilizer imports in Nigeria ............................................................................ 14
Figure 3 : Apparent consumption from 2016 – 2018 for Ghana and Nigeria ............................................. 17

List of pictures
Picture 1 : Participants validating statistics for their countries .................................................................... 6
Picture 2 : Ghana participants....................................................................................................................... 7
Picture 3 : Nigeria participants ................................................................................................................... 12
1 Background
For the past seven (7) years IFDC, through AfricaFertilizer.org initiative have been working with
the CountrySTAT program of FAO to produce and disseminate, reliable and up-to-date official
statistics on fertilizer produced, imported, exported and consumed in countries within the West
Africa Sub-region.
In 2012, fertilizer technical working groups (FTWG) were established in 11 Sub-Saharan Africa
countries, including Ghana and Nigeria. These working groups have been responsible for the
review of the data and the presentation of tables of results of these statistics which will be later
validated by the National Technical Working Group before publication.
Under this partnership, The AfricaFertilizer.org (AFO) in collaboration with West Africa Fertilizer
Association (WAFA) and CountrySTAT agreed to organize this year’s fertilizer technical working
group (FTWG) workshop, to validate fertilizer statistics for Ghana and Nigeria for the year 2018.
The 2018 FTWG workshop was held from 13th - 14th March 2019 at Prampram in Ghana.
AFO in partnership with WAFA and CountrySTAT aims to improve the quality and availability of
fertilizer data in-terms of production, trade and consumption to enable decision-makers to have
and to use reliable fertilizer data for formulation and monitoring of agricultural development
policies, strategies on food security, promotion of trade in West Africa region and beyond, as well
as updating the participants on the new strategies developed in the year under review.
The main objective of the workshop was to;
Validate national fertilizer statistics for the year 2018 while the specific objectives were to
present, review, process fertilizer data in-term of production quantity, imports quantity, exports
volume, apparent consumption and real consumption for Ghana – Nigeria, update 2010 – 2018
series of statistics and share experiences on current fertilizer programs.

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2 Introduction
The workshop commenced with registration of participants and a welcome address by Diyana
Bawiena; Bilingual Administrative Assistant on behalf of IFDC. In her address she thanked all
participants for their past efforts, moved the motion for the adoption of the agenda and called
for self-introduction of the participants. Thereafter, the Ghana and Nigeria CountrySTAT
Coordinators gave their opening remarks respectively.

In her intervention, the new Ghana CountrySTAT Coordinator; Bernice Ofosu-Baadu stressed the
contrast between the economic importance of agriculture in the country and the precarity the
farming community was living in. She drew from this the importance of having accurate data to
be able to solve the issues of agriculture. Therefore, she welcomed the workshop and expected
much from it. The Nigeria Coordinator; Olorunmola Dare Raphael aboded in the same direction
by precising that FTWG meetings held annually have contributed to improve fertilizer data
availability and accessibility.

Table 1 : Number of participants at the workshop

Country Public Sector Private Sector IFDC WAFA Male Female Total
Ghana 7 9 4 - 16 4 20
Nigeria 5 5 2 1 12 1 13
Cote d'Ivoire - - 2 - 1 1 2
Togo - - - 1 1 - 1
Kenya - - 1 - - 1 1
Total Participants 12 14 9 2 30 7 37

2.1 Update on current programs and activities

2.1.1 AfricaFertilizer.org
Following the opening remarks, the new AfricaFertilizer.org Project Coordinator, Grace Chilande
presented to the participants, AFO, its partners, objectives and various activities undertaken by
the organization. From her presentation we gather that AFO is a small team of young men and
women working with the private and public sector to gather and disseminate fertilizer
information on volumes, prices, market situation, production capacity, real fertilizer
consumption, etc. She went on to explain how AFO worked and some result they have produced.
Thus, participants learned that the FTWG serves to obtain reliable information and volume but
there are still some challenges in calculating real consumption. In addition, participants were
presented with copies of the plant register, for them to appreciate AFO work. Grace also
mentioned the current work in progress, which included:
• West Africa market situation to be developed with WAFA

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 • AFO new strategy that should be ready by June 2019
Participants were impressed by both the work underway and the work already completed.
However, seeing the fate of CountrySTAT in most countries, they urged AFO to find a solution to
make the FTWG sustainable.

Presentation 1 :
AfricaFertilizer.org at a
glance

2.1.2 CountrySTAT (Ghana)

Mrs Bernice Ofosu-Baadu who took over CountrySTAT Ghana coordinator position from Mr.
Francis Dzah, pointed out that lack of funds hindered the activities of CountrySTAT in Ghana.
According to her uploading of Ghana fertilizer validated data will be done as soon as they get
adequate training from FAO on the new CountrySTAT System.

2.1.3 CountrySTAT (Nigeria)

Similarly, the Nigeria National Coordinator of CountrySTAT in his presentation explained the
historical background of CountrySTAT system in Nigeria, status of the system with FAO, how the
system works, innovation in CountrySTAT system, prospects and the threats. He said in order to
sustain the system, the team took advantage of social media, interacted with CountrySTAT Desk
officers, initiated move for the creation of Agricultural Data Consultative Committee, participated
in data harmonization committee, collaborated with data users and maintained their relationship
with FAO. He opined further, that a budget has been allocated to CountrySTAT this year, even
though it is not much. The Coordinator concluded that with the current developmental strides of
CountrySTAT Nigeria, the future was bright.

Presentation 2 :
Activities of
CountrySTAT Nigeria

2.1.4 2013-2017 Fertilizer Trade Statistics Overview

Fertilizer Statistics and Database Specialist, Fred Gyasi gave a clear perspective of fertilizer
statistics overview of Ghana. In his presentation, it was noted that NPK was the most imported
fertilizers in Ghana and about 22% of all imported NPK in 2017 came from Morocco. Additionally,
apparent consumption in 2017 had a huge increase of 84% and it was largely due to the Planting
for Food & Jobs (PFJ) and normal fertilizer subsidy that run in the country in that year. A
conclusion was drawn that the Ghana fertilizer market is driven mainly by fertilizer subsidies as

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imports and apparent consumption was at its lowest in 2014, a year where there were no
government subsidies.

Presentation 3 :
Ghana fertilizer
statistics overview

Fertilizer Market Analyst, Samuel Ali presented the overview for Nigerian fertilizer statistics and
opined that the source of Nigeria’s input data comes from customs annually. Since Nigeria has
local production of fertilizer, production data from producers were collected to complement the
complete import data from customs. The active producers are Indorama and Notore, who both
produce urea, While Superphosphate Fertilizer and Chemicals produce SSP, but since 2015, they
have stopped the production of SSP.
Like Ghana, Nigeria’s imports were predominantly from Morocco in 2017. The main import
period was Q2 and Q3 which correspond to the raining season in the farming north. In previous
year, Urea importation was high but with the large local production capacities currently in place,
importation of Urea was banned by the government of Nigeria. Importation of NPK remained
high in 2016 and 2017 despite the Presidential Fertilizer initiative (PFI) which aimed at boosting
local production of blended NPK. This also led to NPK imports being banned by the federal
government, with reasons that the country has enough local capacities to produce NPK and so
does not need to import.
Overall, it is apparent from the data that the Nigerian market has a large consumption potential
but need to be stimulated to grow. Indeed, year 2015 had the lowest apparent consumption and
it was the only year with no government program related to fertilizers. Before that year was the
GES program and after was the PFI.
Upon these two presentations, participants wished to have a forecast of 2019 data proposed.
The AFO team explained that it would be possible to have it for Ghana as the data was received
monthly but not for Nigeria.
The participant also recognised the need to have more trade within Africa. Because it was
observed that, Nigeria’s excess production of urea was being shipped to Brazil when most
countries in Africa imports urea from farther origin.

Presentation 4 :
Nigeria fertilizer
statistics overview

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2.1.5 Presentation by West Africa Fertilizer Association (WAFA)
The Vice President of WAFA, Dr Innocent Okuku gave a general overview of the activities of the
association, their contribution to fertilizer activities in West Africa, challenges facing the industry
in Africa which included; access to finance, quality control, usage, and information sharing. He
encouraged all the participants from the private sector to take the advantage of West Africa
Fertilizer Forum conference taken place in Lomé from April 24-26, 2019 as AfDB in conjunction
with WAFA will be available to develop financial solutions to the private sector.
Binta Ceesay, a consultant working on the finance assessment for WAFA also reiterated the
activities of the association in meeting the needs of their members and urge participants to be
part of the initiatives through their financial instrument initiative. The participants were pleased
with the activities of WAFA and pledge their supports.

2.1.6 Group Work Session to analyze 2018 Import and Export Data

Before the group work session, Fred Gyasi took participants through the methodology used in
the data processing, the levels of details that each country‘s data have and the expected output
of the group work session.
After that, participants from Nigeria and Ghana broke into 2 Syndicate group to validate the
authenticity of the fertilizer data provided by the two countries, Nigerian group concluded that
while verification was on going, the Custom officer should reconciles certain discrepancies with
Indorama and come with a more precise data during the next day activities.
After thorough deliberation by both groups the figures were validated, as respective fertilizer
players in both countries reviewed and confirm the quantities of fertilizers they imported that
year and how they correspond to the data presented by customs. The export figures for Nigeria
was also processed, corrected and confirmed by the two producers who were present with their
production and export data. At the end of the validation process, the production, import, export
and apparent consumption figures where validated and agreed by both groups.

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Picture 1 : Participants validating statistics for their countries

3 Results of 2018 fertilizer statistics review and validation

The second day started with the Nigerian participants checking their data with the new data that
the customs officer provided and aligning them with the private sector. Ghanaian participants
took advantage to also aligned some figures from some private sector companies who came for
the second day of the workshop.

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3.1 Ghana

Picture 2 : Ghana participants

Table 2 : List of participants from Ghana

Name Organization Position

Bernice Ofosu-Baadu Ghana Statistical Service CountrySTAT National Coordinator, Head, Agri and Environmental Statistics
Samuel Yaw Mortey Ghana Statistical Service Head, Trade Statistics
Daniel Denku Wawo MOFA (SRID) Snr Agric Officer
Daniel Ninson MOFA (CSD) Snr Agric Officer
Samuel Okyere MOFA (PPRSD) Snr Agric Officer
Prosper P Tettey Ghana Revenue Authority Snr Revenue Officer
Theodore Eyram Avukpor Macrofertil Ghana Ltd Sales and Development
Dominic Donkoh OmniFert Business Development Manager
Francis Dei GloFert Vice President-Operations
Evans Boateng GloFert
Theophilus Djorbuah Yara Ghana Limited Vice President-Operations
Gregory Amprofi Chemico Limited Marketing and Sales
Isaac Berchie AMG West Africa Ltd Commercial Manager
Kenneth Nii Addy RMG Ghana Direct Sales Manager
Richmond Dogbe OCP Ghana General Agronomist
Binta Ceesay Etim AFAP / Consultant Consultant
Diyana Bawiena IFDC Bilingual Administrative Assistant
Fred Gyasi IFDC Fertilizer Statistics Specialist
Christian Amedo IFDC Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist
Kuukua Ghunney IFDC Junior Agricultural Development Professional

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3.1.1 Fertilizer Production
There is no primary production of inorganic fertilizers in Ghana. Five of the major importing
companies; Yara Ghana, Chemico Limited, MacroFertil, OmniFert and GloFert are involved in
secondary production (blending) of fertilizer formulations, fully operational with varied
capacities located in the port city of Tema (Yara, Chemico), Kpong (MacroFertil) Dawhenya
(OmniFert) and Teacher Mantey (GloFert). There is also a sixth blending plant being set up at
Tema by one of the major importers and it is expected to be completed in 2019. A small
percentage of organic fertilizer is also produced locally by ACARP, Safisana and JEKORA Ventures.

3.1.2 Fertilizer Imports

Fertilizer imports to Ghana decreased from 444,236mt in 2017 to 315,157mt in 2018. In 2017
when a new government came to power in Ghana, they launched a new input subsidy program;
Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) which subsidized fertilizers and seeds as well as provide
extension services to farmers. Before the new PFJ, there was the normal fertilizer subsidy also in
2017 there by making fertilizer imports in 2017 the highest in the country. 2018 only saw the PFJ
which has replaced the normal fertilizer subsidy and as a result, imports decreased by about 29%.

Table 3 : Fertilizer imports in Ghana 2016 - 2018

HS Code Fertilizer 2016 Imports 2017 Imports 2018 Imports

3105200000 NPK 132,632 213,887 224,176
3102100000 Urea 39,035 88,259 42,005
3104200000 MOP 13,842 24,235 15,993
3102210000 Ammonium sulphate 23,268 43,865 10,084
3103101000 TSP 13,802 26,766 9,460
3101000000 Organic fertilizers 8,772 37,643 5,875
Others fertilizers 8,532 9,582 7,564
Total Fertilizer Imports (mt) 239,883 444,236 315,157

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Figure 1 : Chart of top 2018 fertilizer imports in Ghana

TOP FERTILIZERS IMPORTED TO GHANA IN 2018

Organic fertilizers
TSP
2% Others fertilizers
Ammonium sulphate 3%
3%
3%

MOP
5%

Urea
13%

NPK
71%

Blending companies import Urea, TSP, DAP, MAP and MOP to blend different formulations of
NPK for farmers in Ghana. They also import finished NPK’s to sell directly to farmers. The table
below show the various grades of NPK’s that were imported to Ghana in 2018.

Table 4 : Ghana NPK imports per volume, 2018

Fertilizer 2018 Imports

NPK 20 10 10 64,295
NPK 15 15 15 62,635
NPK 27 6 6 32,119
NPK 23 10 5 + 3S + 2MgO + 0.3Zn 29,181
NPK 21 5 5 24,130
NPK 5 16 15 + 3MgO + 16CaO + 6S + 0.5zn + 0.3b 9,814
Other NPK's 2,003
Total (mt) 224,176

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3.1.3 Fertilizer Exports
Official fertilizer re-exports are very low. In 2018, there were about 4,000mt of fertilizers; mostly
NPK re-exported to Burkina Faso, a few to Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire.

3.1.4 Fertilizer Apparent Consumption

Just like imports, there was a 29% decrease in fertilizer apparent consumption in 2018 as against
2017. Carryover stocks from the previous years are unknown.

Table 5 : Ghana 2018 fertilizer statistics summary table

Non Fertilizer 2018 Fertilizer 2018 Apparent
HS Code Product Production Total Imports Exports
Use Imports Consumption
3105200000 NPK 224,176 4,000 224,176 220,176
3102100000 Urea 42,148 3 143 42,005 42,002
3104200000 MOP 16,495 281 502 15,993 15,712
3102210000 Ammonium sulphate 10,429 345 10,084 10,084
3103101000 TSP 9,460 9,460 9,460
3101000000 Organic fertilizer 5,875 7 5,875 5,868
3105400000 MAP 4,433 1 4,432 4,432
3105300000 DAP 1,576 0 1,576 1,576
2510000000 Phosphate rock 703 703 703
2834210000 Potassium nitrate 323 323 323
3102600000 Calcium nitrate 273 273 273
3104300000 SOP 153 0 153 153
3104900000 Other potash 74 74 74
3105700000 NK compounds 24 24 24
3102400000 CAN 3 3 3
3105510000 NP compounds 2 2 2
3102900000 Other nitrogen 1 1 1
3102300000 Ammonium nitrate 88,975 88,975 -
3102500000 Sodium Nitrate 449 449 -
Total (mt) - 405,573 4,291 90,416 315,157 310,866

3.1.5 Planting for Food and Jobs 2019

Daniel Ninson, a Senior Agric Officer of the Crops Services Directorate of the Ministry of Food and
Agriculture presented Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) program which was started in
2017 as a measure to attain food security and provide jobs to the youth and women. The PFJ has
5 main components (seed promotion, fertilizers access, extensions services, market development
and ICT).

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The subsidy for fertilizer covers traditional inorganic fertilizers and organic fertilizers. In the first
year of the program more farmers were reached than planned. Indeed, 500,000 farmers were
targeted but the program reached 677,000 farmers. For 2019 the target is to reach 1 Million
farmers. The program has also for the first time included specific fertilizer recommendation per
crop and according to agroecological areas. These recommendations are based on soil maps that
were done in the country by national researchers.
He mentioned that the 2018 PFJ was plagued by a high level of illegal exports in the north of
Ghana. As a result, a large quantity of the fertilizer destined to the local market was diverted in
neighbouring countries. A set of measures have been introduced in 2019 to reduce this illegal
export. Among the measures include; branding of all subsidized fertilizer bags with PFJ logo,
introduction of 25Kg Bags for the three northern regions, returning of the waybill to the
government as proof of delivery and physical supervision of delivery by Nation Builders Corps
(NABCO). The supervision will be done electronically and with pre-printed forms.
While some participants were impressed by the scale of the program, others were wary of the
sustainability of such a subsidy program. Participants were also unimpressed by the
government’s attempts at curbing fraud. For them, the 50% discount was too big of an incentive
which would attract more fraudsters.

Presentation 5 :
Planting for Food and
Jobs

3.1.6 Fertilizer Regulation in Ghana - PPRSD

Samuel Okyere; a Pesticide and Fertilizer Regulator of the Plant Protection and Regulation
Services Directorate (PPRSD) of Ghana presented the overview of the PPRSD activities to
participants. The organisation’s activities cover the registration of fertilizer importers and
traders, post registration monitoring of the market, sampling and testing of incoming product
and quality control along the supply chain. This last activity is being performed sparingly because
the organisation doesn’t have a lab. They use some AGRA donated equipment to perform some
tests under the PFJ. PPRSD is seeking funding to complete the building of their lab. Other activities
of the PPRSD includes training MoFA staff on fertilizer and advising the Minister for permits and
exemption delivery.

Presentation 6 :
Overview of PPRSD
activities

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3.1.7 Ghana Census of Agriculture
Bernice Ofosu-Baadu of CountrySTAT Coordinator and Head of Agric Statistics in Ghana in her
presentation mentioned that during the past year Ghana has performed its first general census
of agriculture since 1985. This activity was funded by Government of Ghana, FAO, The World
Bank, the Government of the Netherlands and Department for International Development
(DFID).
The census was done electronically thus saving time and money. The operation on the ground
has been concluded and the project team was currently working on consolidating the results. The
results will be released in phases and a national report will be provided.

Presentation 7 :
Ghana census of
agriculture

3.2 Nigeria

Picture 3 : Nigeria participants

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Table 6 : List of participants from Nigeria

Name Organization Position

Gideon Negedu TAK TAK AGRO/ Fertilizer Association of Nigeria [FEPSAN]
Surendra Kumar Srivastava Indorama Head of Marketing
ADEGBITE Joseph Adewunmi Nigerian Ports Authority Cooperate and Strategic Division
Olorunmola Dare Rapheal CountrySTAT CountrySTAT Leader
Adamu Sale FMARD / FISS Deputy Director
Sani Ahmad Customs Tariff & Trade Unit
Felix Nwoche Notore Commercial Business Analyst
Mary Ajoke ARONIYO NBS Assistant Head, Agric Statistics
Bengum Hyelatakiri FEPSAN Agric Officer
Peter Amahwe OCP Nigeria Logistics Services Manager
Innocent Okuku WAFA WAFA Vice President
Samuel Ali IFDC Jr Fertilizer Market Analyst
Salassi Idriss IFDC Nigeria IFDC Country Representative

3.2.1 Fertilizer Production

There is primary production of granulated Urea fertilizer in Nigeria by Notore Chemical Industries
PLC and Indorama Group. Increase in local blending activities saw a 12% increase in Urea
production in 2018 compared to 2017. There are about 31 companies with blending plants that
also import raw materials and blend various grades of fertilizers for the local farmers. The most
common grade of NPK blended in Nigeria is NPK 20 10 10 which is blended under the Presidential
Fertilizer Initiative.

Table 7 : Urea production volumes, 2016 - 2018

HS Code Fertilizer 2016 Production 2017 production 2018 Production

3102100000 Urea 695,000 1,420,325 1,595,935

3.2.2 Fertilizer Imports

Fertilizer imports to Nigeria decreased from 804,093mt in 2017 to 717,450mt in 2018. NPK
imports also decreased by 12% and it is expected to decrease further in the coming years. This is
as a result of the ban on NPK imports in Q4 of 2018 in Nigeria as the country seeks to revive its
fertilizer blending industry. There were also no imports of Urea in 2018 because all blending
plants sourced their Urea locally from Notore and Indorama as they produce more Urea than the
country can currently consume. All these resulted in the decrease of total imports by 11%.

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Table 8 : Fertilizer imports in Nigeria 2016 - 2018

HS Code Fertilizer 2016 Imports 2017 Imports 2018 Imports

3105200000 NPK 380,455 399,949 351,821
3105510000 NP compounds 115,645 96,984 111,500
3104200000 MOP 3,683 121,846 95,373
3105300000 DAP 5,250 102,770 92,956
3103100000 SSP 16,599 16,550 19,854
3102210000 Ammonium sulphate 27,450 40,248 17,700
3102100000 Urea 21,013 12 -
Other fertilizers 23,899 25,735 28,247
Total Fertilizer Imports (mt) 593,994 804,093 717,450

Figure 2 : Chart of top 2018 fertilizer imports in Nigeria

TOP FERTILIZERS IMPORTED TO NIGERIA IN 2018

Ammonium sulphate
2% Other fertilizers
SSP 4%
3%

DAP
13%

NPK
49%
MOP
13%

NP compounds
16%

3.2.3 Fertilizer Exports

Increase in Urea production also increased exports. A 27% increase in exports of Urea from
Nigeria was recorded in 2018 and most of the exports were to Brazil.

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Table 9 : Urea export volumes, 2016 - 2018

HS Code Fertilizer 2016 Exports 2017 Exports 2018 Exports

3102100000 Urea 329,630 659,603 837,436

3.2.4 Fertilizer Apparent Consumption

The statistics summary for Nigeria showed that in 2018 there was a decrease in apparent
consumption, from 1,564,816mt in 2017 to 1,475,950mt in 2018. Although there was a 6%
decrease in apparent consumption, carryover stocks for both 2017 and 2018 were unknown.

Table 10 : Nigeria 2018 fertilizer statistics summary table

Non Fertilizer 2018 Fertilizer 2018 Apparent

New HS Code Product Production Total Imports Exports
Use Imports Consumption
3102100000 Urea 1,595,935 - 837,436 - 758,499
3105200000 NPK 351,821 351,821 351,821
3105510000 NP compounds 111,518 18 111,500 111,500
3104200000 MOP 97,994 2,621 95,373 95,373
3105300000 DAP 92,956 92,956 92,956
3103100000 SSP 19,854 0 19,854 19,854
3102210000 Ammonium sulphate 17,748 48 17,700 17,700
3104900000 Other potash 12,157 136 12,022 12,022
3103900000 Other phosphate 10,214 0 10,214 10,214
3102900000 Other nitrogen 2,732 9 2,723 2,723
3101000000 Organic fertilizer 2,580 2,580 2,580
3105600000 PK compounds 425 4 421 421
2510100000 Phosphate rock 270 20 250 250
3105400000 MAP 38 38 38
2814100000 Anhydrous ammonia 0 0 - -
2814200000 Ammonium hydroxide 1,204 1,204 - -
3102500000 Sodium nitrate 439 439 - -
3102800000 UAN 24 24 - -
3104300000 SOP 687 687 - -
Total mt 1,595,935 722,659 837,436 5,209 717,450 1,475,950

3.2.5 FEPSAN update on Nigeria Presidential Fertilizer Initiative

Gideon Negedu who is the new executive secretary of FEPSAN, gave an update on the
Presidential Fertilizer initiative (PFI), he opined that the program came into existence thanks to
FEPSAN’s work with the Government to resolve the problem of the sector. Indeed, before the
PFI, Government’s only tool to stimulate fertilizer usage at farmer level was subsidy. However,

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the last subsidy program, proved unsustainable leaving the government with a large unpaid bill
of more than 4 hundred million Dollars. As a result, the private sector rejected the subsidy. In
parallel to subsidy issues, the government was faced with the need to reduce Importation and
boost local production because of foreign exchange issues. The PFI came as solution to both
issues, as it boosted consumption by ensuring local production near consumption area and
reduced cost of raw material, thanks to the concessional purchase of large quantities of raw
material.
He mentioned that whiles everything looked good, the system almost collapsed because
imported NPK was still being sold faster than locally blended product which was more expensive.
To save the system that already had government money tied down, FEPSAN lobbied for banning
NPK import.
Beside the PFI, a new development for FEPSAN, was that Government is now making it
mandatory for fertilizer distributor to be members of FEPSAN for security reasons.
Participants, especially the private sector in Ghana where deeply moved by how the private
sector in Nigeria was able to move the Government through the Association.

3.2.6 FMARD / FISS

The Deputy Director of FMARD / FISS, Adamu Sale opined that the ministry is currently working
on formulating and encouraging soil specific blends, which would soon be recommended to the
blenders for production into the market. He stated that this is in a bid to ensure that the country
was moving away from blanket application to soil specific application, in order to improve and
maximize farmers output. He also informed that the ministry is discussing with the PFI on how to
include soil specific formulations to the current PFI production.

3.3 Analysis of Fertilizer Apparent Consumption

Apparent consumption of fertilizers is the primary production of fertilizers plus the total import
of fertilizers minus fertilizer exports minus the non-fertilizer use of imports.
The statistics depicts that apparent consumption of fertilizers in Ghana increased by 84% in 2017
as compared to 2016 and a 29% decrease in 2018. There is a 50% subsidy on fertilizers currently
in Ghana and the market is expected to grow in the coming years.
Apparent consumption in Nigeria increased by 63% in 2017 as compared to 2016 and a slight
decrease of 6% in 2018. The current Presidential Fertilizer Initiative which seeks to revive the
blending industry is one of the major factors for the increase in apparent consumption in 2017
and 2018 although carryover stocks for these years remain unknown.

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Figure 3 : Apparent consumption from 2016 – 2018 for Ghana and Nigeria

FERTILIZER APPARENT CONSUMPTION IN 2016 - 2018

1,800,000
2016 2017 2018
1,600,000

1,400,000

1,200,000

1,000,000

800,000

600,000

400,000

200,000

tons of product
-
Ghana Nigeria

3.4 Fertilizer Use by Crop (FUBC)

Grace Chilande presented the methodology of The Fertilizer Use by Crop (FUBC). AFO expressed
the difficulty they had in getting the FUBC data for Ghana. From the discussion that followed, the
private sector through OCP and YARA said they had the information that would assist the
Ghanaian team to conduct the study and were willing to share it with the ministry or any
consultant who would be contracted to do the FUBC study, provided proper setting was put in
place.

Presentation 8 :
AFO FUBC
methodology

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3.5 Issues and concerns of the private sector
The WAFA Vice President, Dr. Innocent Okuku led the interactions to know the concerns of
fertilizer private sector in the fertilizer space. More issues raised by private sector in Ghana about
the fertilizer subsidies as well as fees charged and paid to PPRSD on every ton of products
imported affected their business. Dr. Okuku advised that the private sector in Ghana create a
national association to make them stronger. He mentioned that when they go to the government
as individuals, they won’t have that much impact as being an association. He also stated that the
private sector in Ghana should focus on the growth and development of the fertilizer market
rather than seeing the market as a competition. He mentioned, that just like FEPSAN, the private
sector in Cote d’Ivoire recently created a national association and it is something that WAFA
supports. All the private sector in the workshop agreed to this and he mentioned further that
WAFA will give their full support to the Ghana national association if it is created. Dominic
Donkoh of OmniFert who is also a WAFA executive was charged with the task of creating the
Ghana national association of fertilizer private sector.

4 Workshop Recommendations
The FTWG meeting in Prampram ended with a series of core recommendations as follows:

• The need for Ghana to establish its local Fertilizer Association, and the first role that the
private sector would want to bestow on the Association, is to work with the government
to make the subsidy sustainable. The responsibility to make sure this recommendation
was implemented fell to the laps of Dominic Donkoh of Omnifert as a WAFA executive
member. Also, WAFA has assured that they will support the creation of the Ghana
association as they did with Cote d’Ivoire.
• AFO and CountrySTAT in Nigeria to work with the Nigerian Customs Authority to obtain
fertilizer data on a monthly basis.
• Participants should be trained on how to use the AFO website, because there is a lot of
information there which a lot of people are either not aware of or don’t know how to
access them on the website
• There is a need to identify how to efficiently capture the fertilizers being smuggled out of
Ghana
• Need for the various stakeholders both in the private sector and the ministry to train
extension agents for both countries in order to get more detailed information from
farmers.

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4.1 Conclusion
All participants took turns to highlight how the workshop benefitted them and how it can be
improved upon. Most of the first-time participants confirmed that the workshop has been an eye
opener on how statistical validations are done and more meaningfully the discussions around
forming an association in Ghana.
The closing remarks was given by both representatives of CountrySTAT Ghana and Nigeria, then
WAFA respectively. Bernice Ofosu-Baadu of CountrySTAT Ghana, while giving her remarks
thanked everyone for coming and specifically for the experience gathered from the meeting
because she has learnt a lot from the workshop. Her counterpart Dare Raphael appreciated the
organizers for putting this meeting together and also for the lesson learnt, he further opined that
despite the challenges of the public sector, he looks forward to a brighter future from the public
sector in statistic collation and validation. On the part of WAFA, they expressed excitement and
appreciated IFDC for the successful conduct of the meeting, especially with regards to the issue
on the creation of an association in Ghana, which initially looked like a herculean task, but he was
happy to hear and see the wiliness of the private sector through this meeting to support the
formation of an association in Ghana. He further appreciated the Nigerian team for their
steadfastness in validating the statistics, despite having encountered some initial setbacks. He
finally encouraged the participants to try and attend the WAFF meeting coming up in Lome (24th
– 26th April 2019), as it would be an interesting session amongst fertilizer stakeholders in the
Industry.

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5 Annexes
5.1 List of Participants

Gender
Organization Position Sector Number Email
M/F
Ghana Statistical Service CountrySTAT National Public F bernice.ofosubaadu@statsghana.gov.gh
Coordinator, Head, Agri
and Environmental
Statistics 233 242546810
Ghana Statistical Service Head, Trade Statistics Public M 233 244176683 yaosamm@gmail.com
MOFA (SRID) Snr Agric Officer Public M 233 244087173 wyadd@yahoo.co.uk
MOFA (CSD) Snr Agric Officer Public M 233 243672961 kwameninson@gmail.com
MOFA (PPRSD) Snr Agric Officer Public M 233 244843668 snsokyere@gmail.com
Ghana Revenue
Authority Snr Revenue Officer Public M 233 244960627 ppatorch@yahoo.com
Macrofertil Ghana Ltd Sales and Development Private M 233 544310634 Theodore.Eyram-Avukpor@ldc.com
Business Development
OmniFert Manager Private M 233 556590330 dominic.donkoh@omnifert.com
Vice President-
GloFert Operations Private M 233 242022517 francis.dei@glofert.com
GloFert Private M 233 233340043 owurakwaku77@gmail.com
Vice President-
Yara Ghana Limited Operations Private M 233 540115748 theophilus.djorbuah@yara.com
Chemico Limited Marketing and Sales Private M 233 243306695 gamprofi@gmail.com
AMG West Africa Ltd Commercial Manager Private M 233 240666381 i.berchie@amgghana.com
RMG Ghana Direct Sales Manager Private M 233 243030004 ken.addy@rmgconcept.com
OCP Ghana General Agronomist Private M 233 555909434 r.dogbe@ocpafrica.com
AFAP / Consultant Consultant Public F 233 508049376 binta.ceesay@gmail.com
Bilingual Administrative
IFDC Assistant Public F 233 543810396 dbawiena@ifdc.org
Fertilizer Statistics
IFDC Specialist Public M 233 243030004 fgyasi@ifdc.org

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 Monitoring, Evaluation
IFDC and Learning Specialist Public M 233 208161643 camedo@ifdc.org
Junior Agricultural
IFDC Development Professional Public F 233 205765016 kghunney@ifdc.org

TAK AGRO/ Fertilizer

Association of Nigeria
TAK [FEPSAN] private M 234 7039856665 negedu@hotmail.com
Indorama Head of Marketing private M 234 8150829270 sksrivastava@indorama.com.ng
Cooperate and Strategic
Nigerian Ports Authority Division Public M 234 8033015908 josephadegbite1967@gmail.com
CountrySTAT CountrySTAT Leader public M 234 8051634840 drolorunmola@gmail.com
FMARD / FISS Deputy Director public M 234 8028842311 ujibrin3264@gmail.com;
Customs Tariff & Trade Unit public M 234 8036596688 wawoboy1@yahoo.com
Commercial Business
Notore Analyst Private M 234 8178605154 okechukwu.nwoche@notore.com
Assistant Head, Agric
NBS Statistics Public F 234 8030953925 omoabm2@yahoo.com;
FEPSAN Agric Officer Private M 234 7037796025 bengum@fepsannigeria.com
Logistics Services
OCP Nigeria Manager Private M 234 8056696343 p.amahwe@ocpafrica.com
WAFA WAFA Vice President Private M 234 8073800137 drokuku@gmail.com
Jr Fertilizer Market
IFDC Analyst Public M 234 7036043838 sali@ifdc.org
Nigeria IFDC Country
IFDC Representative Public M 234 8170199333 sidriss@ifdc.org

WAFA WAFA Coordinator Private M 228 90031197 koudjeg@gmail.com

IFDC Sub Regional Liason Public F 225 48538673 ombahia@ifdc.org

IFDC Sub Regional Liason Public M 225 79378607 kkouassi@ifdc.org

IFDC AFO Coordinator Public F 254 717271033 gchilande@ifdc.org

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5.2 Workshop Agenda

Day 1

Time Activity Responsible

Wednesday 17th April, 2019

08:00-09:00 Registration of participants

09:00-09:30 Introduction of participants

09:30-09:45 • Welcome address (IFDC) •

• Welcome address (Ghana & Nigeria CountrySTAT
Coordinators)

09:45-10:00 • Program, objectives and expected outcomes of the • Grace Chilande

workshop
10:00-10:30 Coffee / tea break

10:30-11:10 Updates on current programs

• Grace Chilande
• AfricaFertilizer.org (presence and activities)
• CountrySTAT Kenya (activities, status with FAO)
• CountrySTAT Tanzania (activities, status with FAO)
11:10-11:30 • Presentation of 2017 fertilizer trade statistics overviews • Phred Gyasi

11:30-12:30 • Country data available, methodology and processes • Phred Gyasi

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 • Group work sessions to analyze 2018 imports and • Country groups
exports data per country
15:30-16:00 Coffee / tea break

16:00-17:00 • Group work sessions to analyze 2018 imports and Country groups
exports data per country (continues)
17:00 END OF DAY 1

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Day 2

Time Activity Responsible

Thursday 18th April, 2019

08:00-08:30 Registration of participants

08:30- 09:00 Recap of previous day activities •

09:00-10:00 Updates on country fertilizer programs and initiatives

• WAFA
• West Africa Fertilizer Association (WAFA)
• MOFA
• 2018/19 Planting for Food and Jobs program in Ghana
• PPRSD
• 2018/19 activities update from PPRSD

10:00-10:30 Coffee / tea break

10:30-12:30 Updates on country fertilizer programs and initiatives (continued)

• GSS
• 2018/19 activities update from Ghana Statistical Service
• FEPSAN
• 2018/19 Presidential Fertilizer Initiative program in Nigeria
• Private sector
• 2018/19 activities update from FMARD / FISS

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-16:00 • Presentation of fertilizer statistics by country (and 5 minutes of • Country groups

questions / answers)
• FUBC study • Grace Chilande
• Discussions Fertilizer and agricultural sector:
o Private Sector issues and concerns • Private sector
16:00-16:20 Coffee / tea break

16:20-17:00 • Workshop Recommendations • Representative of

• Closing remarks participants
• Grace Chilande
17:00 • WORKSHOP CLOSES

5.3 Terms of Reference

1. Context and justification

Since 2012, IFDC, through AfricaFertilizer.org, has been working with the CountrySTAT program of FAO to
produce and disseminate, reliable and up-to-date official statistics on fertilizer manufactured, imported,
exported and consumed in countries within West Africa.
In 2012, fertilizer technical working groups (FTWG) were established in 11 sub-Saharan Africa countries,
including Ghana and Nigeria. These working groups have been responsible for the review of the data

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and the presentation of tables of results of these statistics which will be later validated by the National
Technical Working Group before publication.
Under this partnership, CountrySTAT, AfricaFertilizer.org and the West African Fertilizer Association
(WAFA) have agreed to organize a workshop to validate the national statistics on fertilizers for the year
2018.
2. Objectives of the workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to:
1. Present, review, process and validate detailed 2018 statistical data on production, imports,
exports, apparent and actual fertilizer consumption for Ghana, and Nigeria.
2. Update 2010-2018 series of statistics
3. Update participants on current fertilizer programs and initiatives
3. Expected results of the workshop
At the end of this workshop, participants will have prepared the statistical output tables in
CountrySTAT format on production, trade and fertilizer consumption for the year 2018.
These tables will then be presented to National CountrySTAT Technical Working Groups for validation and
then official publication on the CountrySTAT website of the participating countries.
4. Participation in the workshop
National institutions invited to take part in this workshop are:
• The Ministry of Food Agriculture – Ghana
• Customs Service - Ghana
• Customs Service - Nigeria
• The National Secretariat of CountrySTAT – Ghana & Nigeria
• Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
• Farm Inputs Support Service Department of Federal Fertilizer Department (FFD/FMARD) –
Nigeria
• National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) – Nigeria

Private institutions and organizations include:

• Macrofertil Ghana Limited
• Chemico Ghana Limited
• Yara Ghana Limited
• OmniFert
• GloFert
• AMG West Africa Ltd
• Afcott Ghana Ltd
• RMG Ghana
• OCP Ghana and Nigeria
• Fertilizers Producers & Supplies Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN)
• TAK Agro
• Notore Chemicals Industries Plc

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 • Indorama
5. Organization and methodology of work
Participating institutions and organizations are invited to gather and share with the National Secretariat
of CountrySTAT, IFDC and WAFA data available at their level concerning:
• The production capacity and the production of fertilizer
• Imports and Exports (in Raw format - see below)
• The actual fertilizer consumption, their use by crops and by cultivated area
The data collected will be pre-formatted by the experts of IFDC and AfricaFertilizer.org initiative
These data will then be analyzed and validated during group work by countries, with the technical
assistance of IFDC and CountrySTAT. The results will be finally presented in plenary; recommendations
will be made to ensure a wide dissemination of these results and improve the quality of the
information collected.
6. Format of the data
For the data on imports and exports
• The disaggregated data of imports and exports, generally available at the level of customs services
and points of entry and exit of fertilizers (Port Authorities)
• Note that only the aggregated data by product and per year are published. The information
relating to the operators or the values are only used to verify and validate the types of fertilizer,
the volumes and the agricultural or non-agricultural use of these fertilizers but are not published.
• The data are to be provided in Excel format to allow for a thorough analysis by the participants.
Scanned files or in pdf are excluded. They must contain the following information:
o The customs codes in the format Harmonized System HS
o The exact description of the goods in addition to the customs index
o The net volume in kg or in tons
o The value (local currency, or in US Dollar)
o The name of the importer or the Exporter
o The country of origin and/or destination
o The date of the operation (day/month/year)

Example of data imports (here data of the Ghana for 2015)

Moisjour An Code HS Produit (description 1) Produit (description 2) Point d'entrée

Pays d'origine
Poids net (kg) Valeur en douaneImportateur
(FCFA)
01 9 2015 3102100000 PRILLED UREA IN BULK ( 3,000 MT) TMA1 LY 3,000,000.00 3,746,912.56 YARA GHANA LTD
01 12 2015 3105900000 384 BAGS X 25KG (FERTILIZER MAP) TMA1 IL 11,228.96 45,836.58 DIZENGOFF GHANA LIMITED
01 12 2015 3105900000 FERTILIZERMILLION MORE 15-7-15-2MGO
+ME (528 BAGS X 25KG) TMA1 IL 11,608.90 47,387.44 DIZENGOFF GHANA LIMITED
01 12 2015 3105900000 FERTILIZERMULTICOTE 15-7-15+2MGO (42 BAGS X 25 KG) TMA1 IL 1,542.14 6,295.00 DIZENGOFF GHANA LIMITED
01 13 2015 3105300000 10 X 20' CONTS STC DI-AMMONIUM PHOSPHATE (DAP)TMA1 MA 250,000.00 506,526.14 LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES GHANA LTD
01 13 2015 3104900000 WETTABLE MICRONIZED MINERAL FERTILI
ZER-HERBAGREEN, 67 CARTONS WITH KIA1
6X1 TH 449.24 23,240.12 FEVAK COMPANY LIMITED**************
01 13 2015 3104900000 WETTABLE MICRONIZED MINERAL FERTILI
ZER-HERBAGREEN, 8 BAGS OF 25 KGS KIA1
EA TH 212.76 11,006.85 FEVAK COMPANY LIMITED**************
01 15 2015 3102300000 AMMONIUM NITRATE TMA1 CN 115,598.00 210,107.20 ANIGORD FAMILLE COMPANY LIMITED
01 19 2015 3105590000 FERTILIZER 20115 - COATED FERTILIZE
RFLEXICOTE VU LR 18 19 - 5 -9 + 2MTKD1 BE 61,200.00 349,406.86 PLANTATIONS SOCFINAF GH. LTD
01 20 2015 3105100000 48 TONS CALCIUM NITRATE FERTILIZER
(CALCIUM) IN 25KG BAGS TMA1 NO 48,000.00 59,001.27 YARA GHANA LIMITED
01 20 2015 3102100000 ALIMENTAR20 BAGS X 1200 KG = 24T R PE
CONTAINER X 5 TKD1 BE 120,000.00 271,584.48 GOLDEN STAR (BOGOSO / PRESTEA) LTD
02 11 2015 3105200000 NPK FERTILIZER 23-10-05 IN BULK TMA1 NO 1,275,000.00 1,723,842.51 YARA GHANA LIMITED
02 12 2015 3102500000 SODIUM NITRATE MIN. 98%PACKING: BAGS
960X 25 KGS TKD1 BE 24,000.00 64,189.44 MAXAM GHANA LIMITED(FORMERLY UEE EX
02 13 2015 3102300000 AMMONIUM NITRATE - EMULSION 1440 GRADE BIG BAGS X 1250 KGS= 1800 00TKD1 RU 1,800,000.00 3,042,665.02 AEL MINING SERVICES (GH) LTD
02 13 2015 3102300000 AMMONIUM NITRATE - POROUS PRILLS 800 BAGS X 1250 KGS = 1 000 000 KGTKD1 SE 1,000,000.00 2,442,418.13 AEL MINING SERVICES (GH) LTD
02 13 2015 3102210000 AMMONIUM SULPHATE STANDARDAGRICULTURAL
IN BULK, FERTILIZER TMA1 BE 1,060,000.00 1,005,809.94 LOUIS DREYFUS COMMODITIES GHANA LTD
02 16 2015 3105200000 FERTILIZERCRISTALAND 15.30.15. NPK TMA1 LB 138.78 1,352.40 NAD-ADRA COMPANY LIMITED
02 16 2015 3105590000 FERTILIZERCRISTALAND 20.20.20, NPK TMA1 LB 324.45 3,161.70 NAD-ADRA COMPANY LIMITED
02 16 2015 3105590000 FERTILIZERCRISTALAND 28.14.14, NPK TMA1 LB 58.14 566.54 NAD-ADRA COMPANY LIMITED

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For data on production
• The volumes produced per year and by type of fertilizer, if possible, with the indication of the
formulas produced and their use by crop
• Information on the location, the operator, the production and storage capacity of blending and
manufacturing units
For data on consumption
• Volumes consumed per year, by crop and by type of fertilizer.
• Information usually from statistical services of the ministry of agriculture, public corporations
sourcing through tenders, annual report of the agriculture, studies channels, etc

Example of Data of consumption by products and crops (in Côte d'Ivoire)

Volumes of fertilizer applied (tons)

Crop Types of fertilizers use
2012 2013 2014

Urea 18,840 20 898 28,500

Cotton
NPK 15 15 15 + 6S + 1B 65,287 76,177 86,700

NPK 0 23 19 + 5MgO + 10CaO + B 18000 31500 45,000

Cocoa
NITRABOR 1000 2000 2,000

Urea 1,500 1.550 2,000

NPK 15 15 15 + 6S + 1B 4,600 5,400 7,000

Rice
NPK 12 22 22 600 1000 1,000

NPK 12 24 18 1,000 500 500

Urea 1,700 1,750 2,000

Cereals (but, sorghum
NPK 15 15 15 + 6S + 1B 5,200 6.050 8,300
and millet)
NPK 12 22 22 500 1,000 1,000

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