Iffco aims to sell 5 lakh tonnes of fertilizers

The Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (Iffco) aims to sell around five lakh tonnes of fertilizers in Orissa in 2009-10, including the Kharif and Rabi agriculture seasons. It has already sold around three lakh tonnes of fertilizers in the state in the last kharif season, said sources. Iffco's target for 2009-10 is around 60,000 tonnes more than what it had sold in the previous fiscal.

In 2008-09, Iffco had sold 4,41,624 tonnes of different types of fertilizers in the state. Iffco sells its fertilizers through the State Marketing Federation and Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies (PACS).

Meanwhile, Iffco proposes to provide inputs to the farmers in south Orissa’s Ganjam district to increase the productivity of the pulses during the current Rabi agriculture season on a pilot basis.

The farmers in the district would be provided fertilizers, quality seeds and technical know-how to raise pulses on a cultivable area of 100 acres in the first phase.