Interestingly, the agricultural industry in Togo is struggling...

Interestingly, the agricultural industry in Togo is struggling to make ends meet, and they NEED fertilizer. Might give some push and shove to hurry up on our tender process...



The Togolese government has chosen the option of bidding for the purchase of 35,000 tons of fertilizer for food crop from 2013 to 2014 to avoid delivery delays which have impacted, years ago, domestic production in full recovery of the agricultural sector, Xinhua said Thursday an official source.

The option was made ??public in a statement by which the Togolese authorities have authorized the Department of Agriculture to acquire the fertilizer by tender targeting commercial companies

" solid technical and financial capacities ".

This is a measure to avoid failure in the supply of inputs so as to maintain the trend of surplus production of cereals recorded three previous crop years.

In a recent statement, the Togolese authorities had stressed the importance of the agricultural sector in full recovery to food security in the country.

They noted that the agricultural sector is proof of a lack of fertilizer despite the availability of nearly 42,000 tonnes, an extensive program of reviving the sector estimated at 600 billion CFA francs had started.

This, after the acquisition of approximately 30,000 tons of fertilizer to more than 9 billion CFA francs and the deployment of 8,500 tons of fertilizer acquired nearly 3 billion CFA francs to approximate the input of farmers in perspective of " incentive "for a good crop 2012-2013.