President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared that the Federal Government remains fully on course to deliver 1.1 million metric tonne fertiliser programme to domestic farmers in 2026. 

Disclosing this in an official state executive address on Thursday, June 18, 2026, the President emphasised that the massive agronomic deployment is designed to insulate Nigeria’s agricultural sector from volatile international supply shocks and structurally lower food inflation.

President Tinubu recalled his foundational 2023 campaign promises to systematically reduce foreign agricultural dependency, affirming that strategic raw input contracts have already locked in over 449,000 metric tonnes of essential blending components. 

Backed by ten cargo vessels either fully discharged or currently in transit, these early state interventions have successfully generated ₦61.58 billion in budgetary savings, keeping the final product highly affordable for rural farming cooperatives.

The technical acceleration is driven largely by policy reforms under the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI), which was recently restructured under the management of the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI). 

This operational overhaul has successfully re-engineered localised manufacturing, pushing the number of active domestic blending facilities to more than 90 operational plants. 

This extensive network has effectively given Nigeria the largest aggregate blending capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa, transforming the nation into an agrarian industrial powerhouse capable of manufacturing 16 million metric tonnes of assorted fertiliser annually against a local baseline demand of 2 million metric tonnes.

The administration has deployed the Renewed Hope Farm Input Support Programme (RH-FISP) through the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF). 

Under the initiative, 515,720 bags of locally formulated nutrients are being systematically distributed to 128,930 smallholders cultivating core national staples like rice, maize, cassava, and soybeans across 25 states and the FCT. 

This state-backed distribution framework runs parallel to massive private-sector projects, notably the Dangote Group’s five-year, $40 billion capital industrial roadmap, which is currently scaling up its urea manufacturing assets to a monumental 12 million tonnes per annum to cement Africa’s global export dominance.

Source: Nairametrics