{"id":410515,"date":"2026-05-14T16:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=410515"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:53:08","slug":"petrobras-resumes-fertilizer-production-in-bahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/petrobras-resumes-fertilizer-production-in-bahia\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrobras resumes fertilizer production in Bahia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/petrobras.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petrobras <\/a>resumed fertilizer production in January at the Bahia Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant (Fafen-BA). Fertilizers are essential for agriculture. Brazil, one of the world\u2019s largest food producers, depends on imports of the input for planting, with Gulf and North African Arab countries among its main suppliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva visited Fafen-BA on Thursday (14) at the Cama\u00e7ari Industrial Complex, alongside Petrobras president Magda Chambriard, Agriculture Minister Andr\u00e9 de Paula, other federal government representatives, and Bahia Governor Jer\u00f4nimo Rodrigues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Petrobras, Fafen-BA has the capacity to produce 1,300 metric tons of urea and the same amount of ammonia per day. The plant received BRL 100 million (USD 20 million) in investments and currently operates at 90% capacity, supplying 5% of national demand. The estimate is to reach 20% of domestic production once two additional units \u2014 Fafen Sergipe and Arauc\u00e1ria Nitrogenados S.A. \u2014 begin operations. In the medium term, the goal is to supply 35% of national demand with the opening of another factory in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Brazil\u2019s presidential office, the resumption of fertilizer production in the country began in 2023, when plants previously leased to another company were taken back by the state-controlled oil company as part of a national fertilizer production plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-fertilizer-imports-up-5-4-in-january\/\">Brazilian fertilizer imports up 5.4% in January<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-410509\">Supplied\/Ag\u00eancia Petrobras<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva visited the plant, which received USD 20 million in investments. The facility has the capacity to produce 1,300 metric tons of urea per day, equivalent to 5% of national demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":410509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[10274,22047,3254,10161,10156,9140],"class_list":{"0":"post-410515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-agriculture-en","9":"tag-ammonia","10":"tag-fertilizers","11":"tag-gulf-en","12":"tag-petrobras-en","13":"tag-urea"},"wps_subtitle":"President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva visited the plant, which received USD 20 million in investments. The facility has the capacity to produce 1,300 metric tons of urea per day, equivalent to 5% of national demand.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410517,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410515\/revisions\/410517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}