Ghanaian company Glofert establishes $4.5m fertilizer factory at Asuboi
Glofert limited, a leading producer of fertilizer in Ghana, has established a state-of-the-art blending production plant at Asuboi near Suhum in the Eastern Region.
The factory which will be commissioned in June 2019 under Government’s One District One Factory programme cost $4.5 million.
An ultra-modern fertilizer blending plant installed by Glofert has the capacity to produce 2,400 metric tonnes of fertilizer a day, thus becoming the biggest facility in the West African sub-region.
The cost of the plant has been pegged at 1.7 million Euros.
The ultra-modern facility can also provide fertilizer for any soil type ensuring that the soil gets the essential nutrients to help farmers triple, if not quadruple, their yields.
Speaking to journalists at Asuboi, during a tour of the facility by representatives from the International Fertilizer Development Centers (IFDC), the Chief Executive Officer of Glofert limited, Rev Foster Mawuli Benson, said their plant will be able to meet the country’s blended fertilizer demand and help in reducing considerably importation of such products.
Rev Foster Mawuli Benson is the Chief Executive Officer of Glofert limited
“Our fertilizers are applicable to all crops because they are tailor-made to soil types and the nutrients that are lacking in the soil. So whichever crop you want us to blend the fertilizers to meet, we can and this is very important because each crop requires certain nutrients in the soil before they can give you the maximum yield”.
“This is going to eliminate, not entirely, but scale down the importation of already blended fertilizers so if previously Ghana was importing everything blended fertilizers, now we have in-house companies like Glofert being the biggest blender of fertilizer by capacity and being able to blend 2,400 metric tons a day. So if we can blend 2,400 metric tons a day that should tell you what we can blend in a year.”
Rev Mawuli Benson indicated that his company has the capacity to produce any amount and type of fertilizers needed by farmers in the country and beyond.
“This means we have the capacity and the room to be able to blend fertilizers tailored and specific to the soils and this is going to scale down or reduce importation. But we hope in future, it will eliminate the importation of fertilizers. Glofert is looking in the next 5 to 10 years to do 50 percent blend and 50 percent import and shoot to 70 percent or 80 in the next decade,” he added.
Rev Benson also used the opportunity to encourage the youth to venture into agriculture regardless of their qualifications.
“Young guys need to enter into farming. You can have your own job but you can still venture into farming. Majority of us did not study agriculture or agronomy in school. I’m an accountant, I did my first degree, ACCA and master’s all in accounting but I’m not sitting behind a desk in an air-conditioned room in a tie, because I believe there is a need I have to meet. Farmers have a need and I know I can come in through research by meeting their need so we all together can use agriculture as our second job”.
The leader of the IFDC delegation, Patrice Annequin commended Glofert for putting up such facility saying “such a blending plant will produce the exact fertilisers required by the crops and Ghana has moved towards ensuring that farmers will use different types of fertilisers depending on the crops.”
Source: citinewsroom.com
