PRETORIA, November 13. /TASS/. The first batch of Russian fertilizers blocked in the EU ports will be delivered to Malawi in the second half of this year’s December, the Malawian newspaper Nyasa Times reported on Sunday.

The 20,000 tons of fertilizers, which are now in the Netherlands at the port of Rotterdam, will be shipped by sea next week and reach Malawi in 30 days, according to the newspaper. The fertilizer is expected to be unloaded at a port in the neighboring country, Mozambique, and then delivered to its final recipients. The ship carrying the fertilizer has been chartered by the UN World Food Programme.

The UN first requested the Dutch authorities to release the cargo of Russian fertilizers last October. The Russian company Uralkali, which owns the fertilizer shipment to Malawi, said it was ready to donate 240,000 tons of fertilizers that were stored in the EU for African countries free of charge.

This year, there has been a sharp increase in the price of fertilizer on the global market when it more than doubled. As a result, numerous farms in Africa cannot buy fertilizers in the necessary quantities, which leads both to a reduction in cultivated areas and a drop in yields.