In January, Russian fertilizer producer Uralchem Group delivered a humanitarian shipment of fertilizers to Nigeria. The company announced that 34,000 tonnes of potash had arrived in the country. Meanwhile, Nigeria's agricultural areas have suffered considerable damage from intense floods during the ongoing rainy season, worsening the country's food crisis.
"If it did come into Nigeria, that definitely is enough to support the farming ecosystem in the country. That is a lot of fertilizer. And given that, you know, we are beginning to see, so we have had quite a lot of floods in Nigeria in recent years. So fertilizers right now are very important because we need to replenish. We have seen that because of the floods that happened, we did not have as much farming in the last couple of years," Eribo said in an interview on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
The official expressed hope that this is just the start of Russian support for Nigerian farming.
"If that's the first one, I hope there's more to come. Yes, we'll definitely be willing. I think it will be just great to understand the dissemination of fertilizer when it lands in Nigeria. There's a bit more transparency in terms of who's receiving what and where it's going in a sense," she concluded.
The Eastern Economic Forum began on Tuesday and will run through Friday. It is being hosted by the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia’s Pacific coast city of Vladivostok. Sputnik is the general information partner of the EEF 2024.