Malawi is an agro-based economy.  The country uses a lot of imported fertilizer because there is no fertilizer manufacturing plant.  There is an opportunity to start manufacturing phosphate fertilizer using Tundulu phosphate rock situated at Nambazo in Phalombe District in the Southern part of Malawi.  The Project current requirements are to carry out a magnetic survey, diamond drilling and metallurgical testing.  This will define exploitable reserves as well as commercial flow sheet for the treatment of the ore. 

Official statistics show that Malawi imports, on average, about 200,000 tons of fertilizer per annum. Phosphate fertilizers constitute 20 percent (40,000 tons) of the total imports. Domestic fertilizer production in Malawi would reduce the price of fertilizer and therefore encourage the distribution of fertilizer to the more remote portions of the rural population.