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Tanzania and Morocco To finalize deal on a fertilizer facility
  • The negotiations between Tanzania and Morocco for establishing a fertilizer blending facility at Kisarawe to be completed next week
  • The facility will assist Tanzanian farmers as well as East Africa Farmers achieve food security 
  • Morocco has a clear edge in the manufacture of fertilizers, including phosphorus. It has more than 70% of the world’s reserves of phosphate rock, which is where the phosphorus used in fertilizers comes from.

The negotiations between Tanzania and Morocco for establishing a fertilizer blending facility at Kisarawe, Coastal Region, are expected to be completed next week.

That deal had stalled from 2016 but President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s recent visit to Senegal, when she also met and spoke with Moroccan delegations, jump started the conversation.

According to yesterday’s statement by Zakaria El Goumiri, the Moroccan ambassador to Tanzania, the discussions centred on ways to promote agriculture in both nations. The ambassador said the facility will assist …