Uralchem JSC, Moscow, said it is preparing to open a representative office in Nigeria in the near future, and is also looking to build a plant in the West African country at some point in the future.
Plans for the development of cooperation between Russia and Nigeria were discussed in Moscow this week at a meeting of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, attended by Uralchem JSC Chairman Dmitry Konyaev, Chamber President Sergey Katyrin, and Nigeria’s Ambassador to Russia Abdullah Y. Shehu.
Uralchem’s Chairman said the Nigerian agricultural market has “great potential” for the supply of fertilizers. The country’s agriculture needs to meet the ever-growing demand for food, for which it must use modern fertilizers and advanced technologies, he said.
The Russian company has previously shown its interest to beef up connections in Africa. In 2019, the company reported it was mulling a 1 million mt/y urea production project in Angola (GM March 29, 2019) and the previous year had talked about its ambitions to establish a Russian hub in Zimbabwe, and possibly also in Zambia, in possible cooperation with Uralkali, for the direct supply of mineral fertilizers to the two African nations and potentially their neighbors (GM Feb. 9, 2018).