(MENAFN- Morocco World News) Morocco's national company for the mining of phosphate OCP has been planning for an elevation in demand for phosphate-enhanced fertilizer as the world population increases by more than 53 percent by the year 2050 according to an article by Alyaoum24.
The extra provisions will double the company's mining capabilities. OCP which also participates in Meknes' International Exhibition of Agriculture said the firm was one of the first African companies interested in reducing the carbon footprint from its activities by reducing its emissions of polluting gases and adopting an environmentally responsible way to manage waste. In 2014 the Moroccan company recycled more than 19 tons of metal waste. OCP’s strategy to improve its operational use of water includes the firm's desalination plant Jorf Lasfar and initiatives in many Moroccan cities. The company said its plans to continue green practices correspond with King Mohammed VI's Green Morocco program which employs farmers in the kingdom and other African countries through its soil study which has gathered 26000 samples from 6.8 million hectares of land to evaluate the farmland’s fertilizer needs. Mostafa Terrab CEO of the OCP said earlier this year that his company would be the world's largest producer of fertilizers by the year 2017 as result of contributions from four new complexes tasked with creating the product essential for the world's agriculture industry. Morocco holds nearly 75 percent of the world's phosphate reserves according to the United States Geological Survey. ONP was founded in the year 1920 and its managers run operations from Casablanca.
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