Domestically manufactured fertiliser is anticipated to account for about 40 per cent of Rwanda’s complete fertiliser provide within the 2027A agricultural season, in line with the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Assets (MINAGRI).
Minister of Agriculture and Animal Assets Telesphore Ndabamenye mentioned that on Thursday, July 2, throughout a press convention to launch the 2027Aagricultural enter subsidy tips.
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The estimate is drawn from authorities projections displaying that about 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser will probably be made out there for the season, with 25,000 tonnes anticipated to be produced domestically.
“We’re constructing resilience within the fertiliser provide chain in order that farmers usually are not totally uncovered to world market instability,” Ndabamenye mentioned.
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The push for native manufacturing comes at a time when fertiliser markets have been hit by rising world costs, affecting provide routes, notably in key exporting areas.
“The target is to make sure that regardless of world fluctuations, farmers proceed to entry inputs at predictable and manageable costs,” he mentioned.
Rwanda’s annual fertiliser demand is estimated at between 90,000 and 100,000 tonnes. Within the 2025/26 fiscal 12 months, about 16,000 tones of locally-blended fertilizers had been used, in line with Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Assets Growth Board (RAB). This represents about 16% of the entire fertilizer utilized in the identical 12 months.
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Ndabamenye mentioned farmers are regularly embracing using agricultural inputs, a development he mentioned is anticipated to drive larger demand for fertilisers within the 2027A season.
Domestically produced fertiliser at the moment consists of 4 customised blends developed to match particular land wants throughout completely different agro-ecological zones.
They embrace Blended NPK 17:17:17 (Tweze), Mix PK 31-10+8CaO (Twihaze), Mix NPK 15-30-12+5.6S+0.08B+0.1Zn (Ongera+), and Mix NPK 13-26-12+5S+0.07B+0.1Zn (Ongera).
Ndabamenye mentioned the blends had been developed following soil mapping workouts carried out by RAB in collaboration with companions, geared toward aligning fertiliser formulations with particular crop and soil nutrient wants.
“We at the moment are planning to broaden the variety of customised fertiliser formulations from the present 4 to 9 varieties within the coming seasons, as a part of efforts to enhance productiveness and soil effectivity.”
The minister mentioned the nation is already increasing its fertiliser mixing and manufacturing capability, with expectations that native manufacturing will proceed to develop past the present 25,000 tonnes.
“The long-term goal is that not less than 50 per cent of fertiliser utilized in Rwanda ought to come from native manufacturing. That’s the place we’re heading,” Ndabamenye mentioned.
