Sulphur is essential to maximizing plant growth and yield
In order to promote the balanced use of fertilizers in India, National Fertilizers Limited (NFL) is encouraging farmers in its training programmes to also use nonurea fertilizers like DAP, MoP, NPK and Sulphur Based fertilizers.
With these efforts, the company has registered growth in sale of all non-urea fertilizers during the first seven months of the current financial year. The sale of sulphur-based fertilizers of company – Bentonite Sulphur has registered a growth of 237% and SSP has indicated growth of 133% over the CPLY.
While Bentonite Sulphur, produced in NFL Panipat Plant, bagged sale of 11,730 MT during April-October 2020 against CPLY of 3,478 MT, sale of SSP reached 14,726 MT compared to 6,323 MT during the same period last year.
V N Datt, C&MD of the company commented, “It is important to encourage use of all types of fertilizers to provide balanced nutrition to soil.” Sulphur is essential to maximizing plant growth and yield. As the fourth most important nutrient, Sulphur is also required for nitrogen use efficiency. NFL markets Urea, DAP, MoP, NPKs, APS, Compost, SSP and Bentonite Sulphur besides many strains of bio-fertilizers to provide all types of fertilizers to farmers under one roof.
