MINISTER of Commerce, Trade and Industry Chipoka Mulenga has revealed that the government is engaging Dangote group of companies about setting up a fertilizer plant in Zambia. And Mulenga says Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ) is unable to match the current global trade production, hence government’s decision to seek alternatives in its quest to increase fertiliser production. Asked about his recent trip to Nigeria in an interview, Tuesday, Mulenga said government planned on getting fertiliser from the Dangote group of companies in the interim. “While we have got a deficiency of fertilisers, [we want to be] having access to their fertilisers, them giving us their fertiliser in the interim, probably in the next farming year if we can, while they...

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