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Itafos in Talks with Indian Companies for Rock Phosphate Project

Itafos in Talks with Indian Companies for Rock Phosphate Project

Imagine a company called Itafos wants to help India get a special ingredient for fertilizer, called rock phosphate.

This ingredient is becoming harder to get because some countries are limiting how much they sell.

Itafos is talking to Indian companies about getting this ingredient from a place called Guinea-Bissau.

The tricky part is that Guinea-Bissau needs to build a port to ship the phosphate.

If they can build the port, India might get the supply it needs to make fertilizer.

This would help farmers grow crops and is especially important because the demand for fertilizer is projected at 11 mt for next year.

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