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New Soil Africa

Decentralized Green Fertilizer using air, water and the sun to solve Africa’s fertilizer shortage

ITT has developed a breakthrough technology for producing affordable, carbon-free fertilizer. In small, containerized systems, it produces Nitrolyzer™—an easy-to-use, shelf-stable liquid nitrogen fertilizer—enabling decentralized production without the need for conventional, capital-intensive factories. The result is a scalable solution with the potential to improve productivity and livelihoods for millions of smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

The NitroStation™ was engineered in India and built for local assembly. It can be fully assembled in Kenya and in other emerging economies across Sub-Saharan Africa using a mix of locally sourced components and readily available off-the-shelf parts.

SSA’s limited access to fertilizer

The fertilizer shortage in SSA has significantly hindered the region’s economic development and food security compared to the rest of the world.

Agricultural yields in Sub-Saharan Africa have significantly lagged beyond the rest of the world for many decades

Developing regions with more advanced agricultural systems—such as South Asia—have benefited significantly from reliable access to locally produced nitrogen fertilizer

Conventional fertilizer production relies on large, prohibitively capital-intensive factories. As a result, there are only a handful of production facilities across Sub-Saharan Africa, leaving many countries dependent on imports

SSA imports 90% of its fertilizer at very high costs, resulting in access for fewer than 10% of its farmers.

Conventional fertilizer factories also depend on a continuous supply of methane, which drives extreme price volatility and generates significant carbon emissions.

Emerging modular green ammonia solutions are inadequate

While a number of companies have recently developed innovative, modular green ammonia systems, they address only part of the challenge.

Equipment is still manufactured overseas, perpetuating the region’s reliance on foreign production and maintenance.

These systems only produce ammonia, which is challenging to use as fertilizer, particularly for small hold farmers who lack specialized equipment.

They address capital expenditure and carbon footprint barriers, but they fall short of a solution that most farmers can use—and one that can scale broadly:

ITT's NitroStation™

The NitroStation™ produces Nitrolyzer™, a liquid nitrogen-based solution that is safe, shelf-stable, and inexpensive to produce.

Our green ammonia production system costs less than 50% of comparable systems currently available worldwide. The NitroStation™ then converts that ammonia into Nitrolyzer™, a shelf-stable liquid fertilizer containing 17% nitrogen. Nitrolyzer™ is easy to apply, safe to handle, and highly stable in storage.

We have launched New Soil Africa, going to market through joint-ventures with our partners Orbit Agrochemical (Kenya) and Interkel (Nigeria).