With urea from YPFB, potassium chloride from YLB and NPK from EBIH, Bolivia will achieve its sovereignty in the production of fertilizers in 2023, the interim general manager of the Bolivian Hydrocarbons Industrialization Company, Alejandro Gallardo, told ABI.“We are going to be able to count on sovereignty in terms of the diversity of fertilizers and therefore we are going to be able to have food security with sovereignty since all these fertilizers are national,” said the manager in an interview with this medium.He indicated that with the application of these three types of agrofertilizers in the different crop fields of the country, the Plurinational State will no longer be dependent on imports, within the framework of the industrialization policy, addressed by the Government of the president, Luis Arce.“In Bolivia, urea is produced through YPFB (Bolivian Fiscal Oil Deposits), potassium chloride through YLB (Bolivian Lithium Deposits) and now NPK is going to be produced with pure national inputs through the Bolivian Company. of Industrialization of Hydrocarbons”, he highlighted.On Saturday of last week, in the presence of President Luis Arce, the contract was signed for the construction of the Granulated Fertilizer Production Plant in Cochabamba, between the EBIH and the construction company Sur Energy SRL.According to data from the Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy (MHE), this new industry, also called the NPK Plant, will be built in the Santiváñez Industrial Park located in that department.It will be built with an investment of Bs 62 million, will generate around 2,100 jobs (direct and indirect) and will have a production capacity of 60,000 tons (t), with which it will supply 100% of the internal market demand.The general manager ai of the EBIH highlighted that this new industrial factory will save the country's farmers around US$40 million annually, an amount that is used to import NPK.It is applied in a variety of cropsAccording to Gallardo and the MHE, respectively, the Granulated Fertilizer Production Plant will manufacture the most commercial fertilizers such as: NPK (18-8-18), NPK (12-12-12), NPK (15-15- 15) and NPK (20-20-20).It is used primarily to promote lush green leaves and healthy growth in gardens, lawns, and plants that do not produce fruit or flowers, because they divert nutrient energy down their stems.It is of multiple use to complement the nutrition of crops, it is specially formulated to be used in the initial stages of growth, suitable for crops such as: garlic, onion, artichoke, rice, citrus, coffee and asparagus.It is used especially in gardens, greenhouses, crops and orchards in bulk.Its high nutrient content accelerates the growth of plants and shrubs.Due to its balanced and more powerful composition, it is indicated for use at any time of the vegetative cycle, improving the yield and state of the plant in any phenological state of the same.It is recommended for use in crops of alfalfa, cotton, tomato, potato, eggplant, bean, soybean, chickpea, papaya, pineapple, banana, wheat, oats, barley, rice, melon, cucumber, pumpkin, among others."They are really quite versatile fertilizers because their composition can be varied according to the requirement, even with the technology that we are going to implement, customized compositions can be made, according to the needs of the crop and the needs of the soil," Gallardo explained.He added that a study by the Ministry of Productive Development and Plural Economy (MDPyEP) indicates that with the application of NPK, different kinds of crops can increase their yield by an average of up to 43%.According to the Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Franklin Molina, NPK is a fertilizer or fertilizer that is made up of three macroelements: nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K).The new NPK factory will obtain the first and third macroelement from the YPFB and YLB urea and potassium chloride plants, respectively.Meanwhile, the macroelement, phosphorus, will be obtained from the Cochabamba town of Capinota, where the largest reserves of this mineral are found.With the support of Orestes Sotomayor twitter