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OCP plans to increase fertilizer output from 12 million to 20 million tonnes by 2027.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because export bans, war-blocked shipping lanes and drought are keeping bread and rice prices high and leaving near-record numbers of people in acute hunger, especially across Africa and the Middle East.
Part of the monitored dynamic Global Grain Security · VUCA INDEX 57/100
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moroccoworldnews.com — Japan , Morocco Deepen Food Security Partnership Through OCP Cooperation
"OCP is also expanding its production capacity to meet rising global demand, with plans to increase fertilizer output from 12 million tonnes to 20 million tonnes by 2027."
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from moroccoworldnews.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 9.
Extracted JUL 8; approved JUL 9 at 0.55.
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