Morocco’s OCP to see its Ghana and Nigeria plants operational by 2024

OCP Group, a Moroccan phosphates exporter, has announced that its fertilizer plant in Ghana and ammonia one in Nigeria will be operational by 2024, the company’s chief growth officer told Reuters.

The two plants will have a capacity of 1 million tons a year, Soufiyane El Kassi told the British news agency. A second fertilizer plant in Ethiopia is also expected to start operating by 2023 or 2024.

In addition to these three plants, OCP will be building blending plants in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda. These facilities will be producing customized fertilizers that would go hand in hand with the requirements of different soils, El Kassi said.

Currently, OCP supplies 28 blending units in Africa and has helped train 750,000 African farmers. OCP exported 9 million tons of fertilizers in 2019, including 1.8 tons to Africa.