Nano Urea: Achieving Self-sufficiency in Urea Production
India plans to replace the consumption of 2.5 million tonnes (mt) of conventional urea with nano urea in FY24.
Key Highlights
- India's urea consumption in the last 10 months up to February 2024 stood at 31.7 mt, down from 35.7 mt in the same period of the previous fiscal year.
- About 3.3 million tonnes of nano urea (worth about Rs. 7 crore) produced by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) were sold from August 2021 to February 2024.
- The consumption of conventional urea has gone down in 344 districts, while the use of nano liquid urea has gone up in 74 districts.
- Three ....
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