A fertilizer firm, owned by the Kano State Government, has been allegedly shut down on the orders of the Federal Government. This is part of the government\u2019s determination to ensure that only genuine fertilizers products get to the farmers. Food sufficiency has remained part of the major focus of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government, with
A fertilizer firm, owned by the Kano State Government, has been allegedly shut down on the orders of the Federal Government.
This appears to be the brain behind the continuous raid on places considered to be producing substandard fertilizers in recent time. This is coming few days after another private firm was shut down in Niger State for also producing substandard fertilizers. In a video circulating on social media, labourers at the factory were seen manually mixing fertilizer raw materials with shovels and using same to fill fertilizer bags on the factory floor.
Our source hinted that besides adulteration, there are also fears that manual handling of fertilizer blending may provide access to unauthorized people to some raw materials such as Urea ammonium nitrate that could be used for illegal purposes.
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