Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) Wheat Chairperson, Blair McLeod has indicated that local fertilizer blending has not yet reduced the price of fertilizer for farmers despite the establishment of blending plants in Zambia. Speaking in an interview with Zambian Business Times-ZBT, McLeod said fertilizer prices have remained high because local blending plants still depend on imported raw materials to produce the final products. “The fact that we have got local blending and new fertilizer plants has not improved our pricing for fertilizer at all, so it has had no effect on the prices that farmers are paying,” he said. McLeod...
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