Fertilizer Minjingu has no place to go

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Cargo of 12,500 tons of organic fertilizer in the form of an unresponsive Phosphate fertilizer factory Minjingu what the alleged fertilizer company of Tanzania Fertilizer (TFC) failure supplying farmers.
Fertilizer should have kuwafikiwa farmers in particular regions of southern Tanzania since November last year when the agricultural season in 2009 when you were expected to start.
News stuck with a load of fertilizer that were known during the visit of President Jakaya Kikwete was recently done at the factory, though claimed that the President was not informed why the munitions factory there unresponsive.
During his visit the President Kikwete also laid the foundation stone in the third phase of construction of a fertilizer factory kitakachozalisha nutrient mix (NPK).
Speaking at the factory, CEO of the industry Minjingu Tosky Hans during the visit of President Kikwete explained that they have been in constant communication with the TFC shipments but for more than four months now TFC failed to take it.
Southern regions in which the fertilizer is expected to be transported to Iringa, Mbeya, Rukwa and Songea. Tosky said the main reason put forward by operators of TFC is no money to transport the manure up in the respective regions.
"Tumewsiliana them often but they claim that they do not have the money to support the transport of manure to the southern regions ... and you know we have our work is producing now I can find out more about it and I can not go into more detail than that," said Hans.
According to the agreement between the factory management and TFC and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives on the other hand the same factory You should produce fertilizer but the task of distributing agents and farmers' input is done by TFC.
Minjingu the fertilizer factory lies Babati district intends to produce between one million tons to five million natural fertilizer by 2015 for domestic needs and for export.
According to Hans increase in production that enable them to sell fertilizer in all Member countries of the East African Community (EAC) and the Community of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
He said that in terms of domestic demand in the fiscal year 2008/2009 the Government requires 60,000 tons of fertilizer and till now the factory has been able to produce 36,500 tons, of which 24,000 tons have already been taken, while another 12,500 tons are stuck at the factory.
He said that in the initial stage they hope to build another factory in the next phase which will be able to produce 150,000 tons per year.
In the case of factory set the foundation stone of NPK, Hans said that is expected to be completed in less than 300 days and will be able to produce 75,000 tons of fertilizer per year kikigharimu US $ 5.5 million
"Factory kimepania in our original strategy to increase production to deliver 300,000 tons of NPK fertilizer per year by 2012," he said.
He said that part of Minjingu has enough raw materials to more than 10 million tons of phosphate mining in eeneo these ones have been discovered in the neighboring village of three hills.
For his part, President Kikwete urged executives of government and stakeholders to ensure buy fertilizer linaacha National abroad and become big sellers out using existing resources including but not limited to gas and mine Minjingu.
Minjingu factory produces natural fertilizer mined in the area which is derived from feces and carcasses vestige of the whooping crane and fish that died there centuries ago to build layers of rock phosphate mining accoutrements.