The
Director General, the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA),
Charlotte Hebebrand, has disclosed that fertilizer use in Africa remains
startlingly low compared to other regions, with average use at around 10 kg per
hectare, a tenth of the global average.
“Yet
African leaders have pledged in the 2006 Abuja Declaration to bridge this gap
and increase fertilizer use to 50 kg/ha by 2015, a goal which has only been met in very few countries.”
He
made this known at the launch of a new campaign, by the International
Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) to promote the
