India to stop importing urea by end of 2025?

Mansukh Mandaviya，Indian Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers，said that India's large-scale promotion of domestic production, bridging the gap between supply and demand, by the end of 2025, India will get rid of dependence on urea imports and stop urea imports.

Mansukh Mandaviya points out that the supply of fertilizer is crucial to Indian agriculture. For the past 60 to 65 years, India has been using fertilizers to increase crop yields. He noted that India needs about 35 million tonnes of urea per year to meet its domestic demand.

Mansukh Mandaviya said: "At present, the gap between India's annual production and demand is about 4 million tonnes. The government has adopted a two-pronged strategy to end its dependence on urea imports. On the one hand, the government is working to promote alternative fertilizers such as nano liquid urea and nano liquid diammonium phosphate (DAP). On the other hand, India's installed capacity has increased from 22.5 million tons in 2014-2015 to about 31 million tons today. After the commissioning of the fifth plant, India's annual urea capacity will reach about 32.5 million tons, and plans to replace 2-2.5 million tons of conventional urea with nano liquid urea.