The Kyrgyz government and the country’s main agricultural co-op have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the China National Electric Engineering Company (CNEEC) for the construction of a urea and complex fertilizer plant, according to an Aug. 21 release in the national media outlet Kabar.
Details on the intended plant capacity and a commissioning date were not disclosed. The scope of the MoU is the construction of a modern fertilizer plant that will strengthen the country’s agro-industrial complex by providing farmers with high quality and affordable domestically produced fertilizers, reducing reliance on imports.
Kyrgyzstan, located in Central Asia, does not currently have any nitrogen, phosphate, or potash capacity and imports around 35,000 mt/y of fertilizers, of which approximately 25,000 mt/y is urea from the Russian Federation and neighboring Kazakhstan.