Boosting production

New urea policy is showing encouraging results

With the commissioning of the fertiliser plant at Ramagundam in Telangana last week, India has inched closer to achieving self-sufficiency in urea and can now look forward to becoming an exporter of this most-consumed crop nutrient in near future. This is one of the five public-sector fertiliser plants that were junked years ago but were taken up for revival under the New Urea Policy of 2015. These units, together, would add over 6 million tonnes to the country’s existing urea production capacity. The plants at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and at Barauni in Bihar have already started functioning and the