India’s Fertilizers Production

The above chart shows the trends in India’s Fertilizers Production.

• India meets 85 per cent its urea requirement through indigenous production but depends heavily on imports for its phosphatic and potash (P & K) fertilizer requirements.
• Urea, 21 grades of P & K fertilizers, and 15 grades of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash) complex fertilizers are provided to farmers at subsidized prices.
• Farmers pay only 25 to 40 per cent of the actual cost and the rest of the cost is borne by the Government in the form of a subsidy, which is reimbursed to the manufactures/importers.
• The domestic production of urea, Diammonium phosphate (DAP), and complex fertilizers in the year 2009-10 has increased compared to 2008- 09. The production of urea is estimated at 215.37 lakh tonnes in 2010-11 and that of DAP and complexes at 39.58 lakh tonnes and 91.66 lakh tonnes, respectively.

Why Production is low?
The main bottleneck in the increase in production of fertilizers is availability of raw material & intermediates.