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End Urea Imports by 2025
April 9 , 2024
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- India will by the end of 2025 stop importing urea as a massive push for domestic manufacturing has helped bridge the gap between supply and demand.
- The country has been using the chemical fertilisers for the last 60-65 years to enhance crop production.
- The government is making efforts to promote alternate fertilisers like nano liquid urea and nano liquid di-ammonium phosphate (DAP).
- India needs around 350 lakh tonnes of urea annually to meet domestic demand.
- The installed domestic production capacities have been increased to around 310 lakh tonnes from 225 lakh tonne in 2014-15.
- At present, the gap between annual domestic production and demand is around 40 lakh tonnes.
- Imports of urea fell to 75.8 lakh tonne in 2022-23 from 91.36 lakh tonne in the previous year.
- A total of 7 crore nano urea bottles (of 500 ml each) have been sold during the August 2021 and February 2024 period.
- One bottle of nano urea is equivalent to one bag (45 kg) of conventional urea.
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