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In order to grow crops that will yield enough food to feed the world’s population, fertilizer is added. Fertilizers give plants the nutrients potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen so they can grow larger, more quickly, and produce more food.Despite significant fluctuations in recent years, Namibia’s fertilizer consumption generally increased.
Through the use of biochar as a type of natural fertilizer, a group of Namibian farmers are transforming agriculture in the often barren soils of the desert that characterize the Southern African nation.
The amount of plant nutrients utilized per square meter of arable land is measured by fertilizer consumption. Products for fertilizers include phosphate, potash, and nitrogenous fertilizers (including ground rock phosphate). There are no traditional fertilizers like animal and plant manures.
The Namibia Fertilizer Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
The biochar produced from encroachment bush is also establishing a value chain on several farms where it is used as animal feed and fertilizer, with the leftovers being sold as charcoal to the local populations. Farmers all around the nation are embracing the use of biochar as a low-cost fertilizer.
The NUST is also examining the viability of utilizing biochar as a fertilizer on a large scale and using farm plants to instruct students studying biochemistry to work practically for their studies.
