Argus FMB Africa Fertilizer Conference was held in Addis Abeba from February 18 to 20, 2015.
The conference attracted over 400 delegates from across the fertilizer supply chain in Africa and internationally. Representatives from over 50 different countries attended the conference, which focused on the steps needed to boost production and consumption of fertilizer in Africa according to Mitiku Kasa, state minister of Agriculture during his opening speech.
The conference, which is said to provide a platform to meet and do business with leading global producers, traders and distributors of fertilizers, has made the participants visit the fertilizer blending factories that the country is now building.
Ethiopia, which had embarked on soil fertility assessment and identified the contents that are missing in the specific areas is constructing four fertilizer blending factories which will bring the number of fertilizer blending factories in the country to five.
A fertilizer-producing factory is also being built in Yayo, in western Ethiopia Illubabur Zone, which is one of the five factories that the government plans to construct with 2.8 billion dollars.
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