The company had reported net profit of Rs 68.66 crore in the same quarter of the 2014-15 fiscal.
Total income from operations rose to Rs 3,020.87 crore in the January-March quarter of 2015-16 from Rs 2,997.59 crore in the same quarter in 2014-15.
"The pesticides business has yielded good results for the company," Coromandel International Chairman A Vellayan said.
It has 4 complex fertiliser plants with combined capacity of about 30 lakh tonnes. Besides this, the company also has 7 SSP plants with total capacity of 10 lakh tonnes.
