Farai Mabeza, Senior Staff Writer 
ZIMBABWE has started to draw down on a US$11 million facility from the Africa Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to more than double its Ammonium Nitrate (AN) fertiliser production in time for the next farming season.
Following a bumper harvest this year the government is undertaking reforms to the agricultural value chain to anchor economic growth going forward.
Last year, the country’s sole manufacturer of AN, Sable Chemicals, produced 16 000 tonnes of the 300 000 tonnes required in a normal agriculture season, with the balance being met through imports.
But according to Sable Chemicals chief executive, Bothwell Nyajeka, the expansion project will see the country’s AN output grow to 50 000 tonnes in 2022 then to 100 000 tonnes the following year.
Sable Chemicals chief executive, Bothwell Nyajeka
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