FG Moves To Boost Fertiliser Supply For Farmers

The Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI) says it is advancing to a caller signifier designed to warrant a unchangeable and uninterrupted fertiliser proviso for Nigerian farmers, successful enactment with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s imaginativeness for nutrient sovereignty.

Tagged PFI 3.0, the inaugural volition prioritise year-round availability of earthy materials for blending plants, amended outgo efficiency, and fortify section sourcing to trim dependence connected imports.
According to the PFI, much earthy materials were already supplied oregon ordered successful 2025 than successful 2024, and warehouses nationwide are present stocked to enactment blending plants astatine afloat capacity.

New information from the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI), which volition instrumentality implicit absorption of the programme from the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) successful November 2025, shows that betwixt 2022 and September 2025, 48 vessels delivered captious fertiliser inputs to Nigeria.

In 2025 alone, 10 vessels discharged cargoes, accounting for much than 560,000 metric tonnes of materials received astatine the nation’s ports.

Dr. Armstrong Ume Takang, Managing Director of MOFI, said the programme was designed to shield farmers from planetary marketplace shocks. “We are meticulously gathering a strategy that tin insulate farmers from planetary marketplace shocks and instil the assurance needed for semipermanent cultivation planning,” helium said.

Since its inception, the inaugural has facilitated the accumulation of implicit 128 cardinal bags of fertiliser, including 4.5 cardinal metric tonnes of finished products betwixt 2021 and 2024.

The Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN) said this has been made imaginable by the maturation of section blending plants, which present fig much than 90 nationwide and person a combined capableness of 13 cardinal metric tonnes.

FEPSAN president Alhaji Sadiq Kassim said the expanded web has ensured fertilisers are person to farmers and reduced proscription costs.

While acknowledging concerns astir rising fertiliser prices, manufacture leaders attributed the situation to overseas speech volatility and planetary earthy worldly costs alternatively than section scarcity.

The PFI said the caller signifier volition present reforms to curb hoarding, amended traceability, and accelerate home input accumulation to fortify Nigeria’s agro-industrial base.

“The PFI is simply a premier illustration of public–private collaboration that tin lick analyzable nationalist challenges,” Dr Takang added. “Its aboriginal is simply a testament to Nigeria’s capableness for strategical reform.”