Launch of Sukulu Comprehensive Industrial Project

Sukulu village, a trading centre some 5 kilometers off the Tororo Malaba road will be a beehive of acti vity today as President Yoweri Museveni launches the Sukulu Phosphate Comprehensive Industrial Development project which is part of a 620 million dollar (approximately 2.3 trillion Uganda shillings) investment which also comprises the expansive Uganda China (Guangdong) free zone of Internati onal Industrial Cooperation situated in the area.

The fertilizer production plant being launched today is introducing the fi rst purely organic ferti lizers on the local market and will be producing 50,000 tons at the start which will grow to 100,000 tons as demand grows even beyond borders across the region.

CEO Jane Guo during a fertilizer plant tour

It has an installed capacity of 300,000 tons of fertilizer per year but the CEO Dongsong Energy Group Uganda Limited which is the proprietor of the project Jane Guo says maximum production capacity will be achieved with time as the company gets more market across the region to absorb the fertilizer they will produce.

The project boasts of a separation plant where the mineral phosphorite used in the making of phosphate fertilizer is removed from the ore and then the fertilizer plant where it is processed to turn it into organic fertilizer that is used to add fertility to the soil. The final product from here which is the fertilizer has been prepared and manufactured specifically to fit the needs of soils in Uganda and across the East African region.

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LV Weidong, President Guangzhou Dongsong energy group ensuring all is well for the project ahead of its launch on 23rd Oct 2018.

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