Ammon News - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), Dr. Mohammad Thneibat, and the Brazil's Agriculture Minister Marcos Montes, discussed joint cooperation opportunities aimed to meet the Brazilian market's growing needs of various phosphate fertilizers and raw phosphate.

The remarks came during Montes's visit on Sunday, to the JPMC headquarters, to discuss ways to develop Jordanian-Brazilian cooperation relations in various fields, to serve common interests, according to a company statement.

During the meeting, Thneibat affirmed the JPMC's readiness to increase its exports to Brazil, to contribute to the success of Brazil's national fertilizers plan, based on the company's technical and human capabilities in this field.

Thneibat said the two sides agreed to organize a specialized Brazilian team's visit to the JPMC to launch a cooperation formula, leading to "fruitful" partnerships aimed to enhance joint cooperation relations.

In addition, he affirmed the JPMC's readiness to meet the Brazilian market's needs of phosphate and phosphate fertilizers of various kinds, launch "fruitful" cooperation with the concerned Brazilian companies, and establish some joint industries between the two sides in Jordan and Brazil.

Thneibat presented the JPMC'S achievements in terms of production and export operations, its plans, development stages and future projects.

The JPMC, he noted, has "distinguished" partnership relations with a number of international companies specialized in the phosphate production and export and manufacturing phosphate fertilizers and phosphoric acid.

Thneibat also referred to the Jordanian experience in the joint industries of JPMC in India and Indonesia.

Montes, for his part, affirmed Brazil's keenness to cooperate with the JPMC in the field of importing Jordanian phosphates and manufacturing phosphate fertilizers to ensure success of Brazil's national fertilizer plan.

Montes also lauded the company's role and reputation in the global phosphate market, and its "remarkable and enormous" potential.

The visit, he noted, aims to discuss ways to deliver phosphate fertilizers of various types to the Brazilian market to meet its needs, which are estimated at more than 40 million tonnes annually.

Jordan, he said, has a "huge and large" reservoir of high-quality phosphate ore, which today has become a main requirement to contribute to achieving food security at the national and global levels.

Stressing his country's desire to cooperate with JPMC to meet the Brazilian market's needs of phosphate fertilizers, he noted the near future will witness "remarkable" joint cooperation in the field of phosphate production and manufacturing of phosphate fertilizers and phosphoric acid.

On future steps, he said the visit's outcomes will be sent to the Brazilian National Industry Confederation (CNI) aimed to facilitating the process of communication between Brazilian companies and the JPMC , in a way that enhances the existing cooperation relations between the two friendly countries in various fields.