{"id":43947,"date":"2026-08-27T17:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43947"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:42:28","slug":"moroccos-ocp-us-farmer-owned-cooperative-plan-450m-fertiliser-plant-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/moroccos-ocp-us-farmer-owned-cooperative-plan-450m-fertiliser-plant-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco&#8217;s OCP, US farmer-owned cooperative plan $450m fertiliser plant in Louisiana\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">OCP North America, a subsidiary of Moroccan phosphate producer OCP Group, \u200band CHS, a United States (US) farmer-owned cooperative, \u200cplan to form a joint venture to build a phosphate fertiliser plant in Louisiana with an \u200binvestment of up to $450 million.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In June, \u200bUS President Donald Trump authorised a \u2060temporary suspension of certain duties on phosphate \u200bfertiliser imported from Morocco to help offset \u200bsupply disruptions linked to the Iran war.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The plant, to be located at the Cornerstone Energy Park in \u200bWaggaman, according to a statement from \u200bOCP on Wednesday, would be the first of its \u200ckind \u2060built in the United States since 1984.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It is expected to produce more than 1 million metric tons of phosphate-based fertiliser \u200bannually.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">OCP Group would \u200bsupply \u2060phosphoric acid to the facility, while finished products would be distributed \u200bthrough both OCP North America \u200band \u2060CHS.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">OCP is the world\u2019s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilisers.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It has expanded its production capacity \u2060to \u200b16 million metric tons \u200bin 2025 from 3 million metric tons in 2008.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35166,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-43947","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"In June, \u200bUS President Donald Trump authorised a \u2060temporary suspension of certain duties on phosphate \u200bfertiliser imported from Morocco.","published_date":"","news_description":"In June, \u200bUS President Donald Trump authorised a \u2060temporary suspension of certain duties on phosphate \u200bfertiliser imported from Morocco.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43950,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43947\/revisions\/43950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}