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The federal government is to revive 12 moribund fertilizer blending plants to bring to 23 the total number of plants that will partake in 2018 Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI), an official says.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this at a media briefing in Lagos said 11 moribund plants with a combined capacity of over two million metric tonnes (MT) had been revived.

He said fertilizer production in Nigeria has been a success story with the setting up of the PPI in December 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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He said the PFI was set up to deliver commercially significant quantities of affordable and high quality fertilizer at the right time to the Nigerian farmer.

“The PFI has turned out to be a magic wand in fertilizer production.

“Recall that the agricultural sector and the country’s food production were negatively impacted in 2016, as farmers became exposed to high and rising prices for key agric inputs.