Kenya will no longer import fertiliser by the end of the year once the multibillion-shilling Eldoret plant rolls out production, Deputy President William Ruto said yesterday.
He said the government is impressed at the pace of the plant's construction work.
Ruto said the factory's completion will solve the problem the country has in importing fertiliser.
He was speaking when he received a progress report on the construction work at his Harambee Annex office.
The DP said the completion of the factory will also bring down the cost of production.
“We will have a manufacturing plant that will be sensitive to soils and crops. This means we will have fertilisers whose soils survey have already been done,” he said.
Toyota Kenya chairman Dennis Awori and factory CEO Akira Wada said they are doing everything possible to meet the August deadline for the factory to start production.
Awori said Toyota Tsusho, the company building the factory, is committed to producing a well-balanced NPK blending fertiliser, including micro nutrients matching crop and soil conditions.
“Our installed equipment is the most advanced fertiliser blending equipment in the industry,” he said.
