Senegal Fertilizer Firm (SEFCO), that is the identify of the longer term Ndiane fertilizer manufacturing facility. A mission costing 1,000 (thousand) billion CFA francs, managed by Petrosen. Scheduled for 2029, this plant will produce completely urea, with an annual manufacturing capability of 1,200,000 tons. Urea is a fertilizer that comprises solely 46% nitrogen; a really perfect fertilizer for crops that require this fertilizer.
To know why the Senegal Fertilizer Firm won’t be able to play the position of Senegalese chemical industries in our agriculture, it’s essential to recall some technical components on fertilizers.
Mineral fertilizers are produced from a chemical course of aimed toward acquiring particles containing the totally different fertilizer components, primarily: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potash (Okay). That is why we speak about NPK fertilizers.
Component N promotes the expansion of the plant stem and leaves. Component P is concerned within the manufacturing technique of the plant. It’s a very powerful fertilizer. Phosphate is the supply. As for factor Okay, it performs many roles in plant development, particularly in strengthening seeds.
The preferred fertilizers for all farmers all over the world are NPK complicated fertilizers. That is when 3 fertilizer components are present in every fertilizer seed. When there is just one factor per seed, the fertilizer obtained is a mix known as bulk (bulk combine).
ICS specializes within the manufacture of complicated fertilizers. The next fertilizer formulation aren’t any secret.
– NPK 6.20.10 Fertilizer for Peanut
– NPK for cereals and horticulture 15.15.15, 10.10.20, and so on.
– NPK for cotton 14.22.12, 14.23.14, 14.18.18
– ICS additionally specializes within the manufacture of NP 18.46 fertilizer, often known as DAP. It’s a binary fertilizer composed of nitrogen (18%) and phosphorus (46%).
ICS is subsequently in a position to mass-produce all fertilizers besides 46% urea, a fertilizer that gives nitrogen (N) particularly. Urea is produced from ammonia derived from pure gasoline. With its gasoline reserves, it’s simple to grasp why Senegal would make investments closely in a urea plant. That is nice. Nevertheless, this urea plant won’t ever exchange ICS in Senegalese agriculture. It’ll actually meet our urea wants and make Senegal an exporter of this fertilizer.
Please keep in mind that Urea isn’t NPK.
We predict it was vital to put in writing this text to attempt to persuade our compatriots who consider that the fertilizer downside in Senegalese agriculture can be solved by the Ndiaye Urea manufacturing facility. ICS with its NPK are important to resolve this fertilizer deficit downside that now we have been experiencing for the reason that arrival of Indorama.
Greater than ever, the renationalization of Senegal’s chemical industries is critical. This could be the best patriotic act our nation has ever seen.
ABDU AZIZ NDIAYE
Writer of the ebook, “Senegal’s Chemical Business: Chronicle of a Premeditated Financial Crime.”