IFFCO to set up Nano Urea production plant in Karnataka soon
Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda flagged off Nano Urea dispatch to Karnataka. The minister also promised IFFCO to award land to start a Nano Urea production unit near Bangalore Airport.
“It is a momentous occasion for India where IFFCO is working towards realizing Prime Minister’s dream of Aatmnirbhar Bharat and Aatmnirbhar Krishi. We will give you a site (land) near airport in Bangalore from where IFFCO can produce Nano Urea from Karnataka,” Gowda said while flagging off NanoUrea dispatch to Karnataka.
Earlier IFFCO had requested Gowda to award land for a plant in Karnataka where Nano Urea and Nano DAP could be produced for the Southern parts of India.
Dr U S Awasthi, Managing Director IFFCO said the Kalol plant is dispatching one truck with 15000 bottles of Nano Urea per day and soon the plant would dispatch 10 trucks every day. He said that the Kalol plant is producing 6750 tonne equivalent of urea per day, which would result in saving Rs 35,000 crore of Government’s subsidy burden and would help farmers earn additional Rs 35000 crore. The plan has started trails of producing Nano Urea and Nano DAP from this Kharif crop and IFFCO is very hopeful of the success. Post which the plant would produce both Nano Urea and Nano DAP, said Awasthi.
IFFCO had earlier dispatched Nano Urea shipments to the states of Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. The stocks were sold within half an hour. IFFCO is already in the process of construction of its plants at its Kalol unit in Gujarat and also at Aonla and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh in Phase- I by year 2021-22. The total annual production capacity would be initially 14 crore bottles of 500 ml, which will further be raised to 18 Crore.
