OCP Group, Casablanca, and Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) on Sept. 5 announced plans to proceed with a new 1 million mt/y fertilizer plant in Ghana. The news came during the African Green Revolution Forum in Accra.
The plant would be to be located in the Jomoro District in western Ghana. The project is still in its conceptual phase and topographic studies are in progress. The project would use natural gas from Ghana and phosphate from Morocco.
The announcement follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in September 2018 (GM Sept. 14, 2018), in which the parties agreed to explore the feasibility of a fertilizer plant.