Minister wants Tunisia's phosphate output back up to 10 million tonnes a year

Salah Zouari, the Equipment and Housing minister who also oversees Industry, Mines and Energy, told Washington-based platform Attaqa that Tunisia wants to restore phosphate production to its historical level of around 10 million tonnes a year by rehabilitating and modernising existing facilities. The goal is to process 60 to 70 percent of extracted phosphate domestically, including into fertiliser, in the near future; no timeline was given for either the production or processing targets.

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