Overview
- During the January 11 visit to Lázaro Cárdenas, the president said Pemex began restoring Fertinal’s capacity under the López Obrador administration and is now working to expand and improve it.
- She emphasized that Fertinal currently supplies a significant share of fertilizers distributed at no cost to small agricultural producers.
- The facility endured years of closures and legal disputes, and Pemex’s 2016 purchase of Grupo Fertinal was criticized over alleged overpricing tied to prior management.
- Pemex reports Grupo Fertinal operates what it calls the only underground phosphorus mine in the world, with a target of 3.5 million tonnes extracted since 2019 and a goal to produce 1.5 million tonnes of fertilizer for distribution.
- Sheinbaum toured the plant with Energy Secretary Luz Elena González and Pemex CEO Víctor Rodríguez, as officials highlighted logistics from the phosphate mine to Lázaro Cárdenas and links to other Pemex fertilizer facilities.