Highest ever domestic production of Urea in 2015-16
Department of Fertilizers is mandated to provide all subsidized chemical fertilizers to the States/UTs as per requirement projected by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare (DAC&FW) in consultation with States. In order to meet the gap between domestic demand and indigenous production, urea is imported. In the year 2015-16, domestic production of urea was the highest ever. Import is going to reduce gradually as production of urea increases.
The details of annual requirement/demand, production and import of major fertilizers during the last three years are given below:-
(Figure. in LMT)
Name of the Product | Requirement/Production /Import | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
Urea | Requirement/Demand | 316.90 | 306.71 | 313.35 |
Production | 227.15 | 225.85 | 244.75 |
Import | 70.88 | 87.49 | 84.74 |
DAP | Requirement/Demand | 109.86 | 95.94 | 102.34 |
Production | 36.11 | 34.44 | 37.87 |
Import | 32.61 | 38.53 | 60.08 |
NPK | Requirement/Demand | 107.36 | 99.81 | 105.89 |
Production | 69.13 | 78.32 | 83.01 |
Import | 3.62 | 2.91 | 6.29 |
MOP | Requirement/Demand | 35.13 | 30.26 | 36.08 |
Import | 31.80 | 41.97 | 32.43 |
This information was given by the Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers Sh. Mansukh L. Mandaviya in the Lok Sabha today.
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