Fertiliser Plants

Centre's focus is to bring down the cost of gas which is a key component for production of urea. Information from official sources indicated that bids, some of which stood at more than $30

New urea policy is showing encouraging results

The industry has on several occasions told the government the price of ethanol produced from sugar juice or syrup should be based on returns on equity

Being highly subsidised, there is always a tendency to divert urea towards non-agriculture purposes

Zuari Agrochemicals on Tuesday said it will sell its fertiliser plant and the associated biz at Goa to Paradeep Phosphates (PPL) for an enterprise value of USD 280 million (over Rs 1,100 crore).

To make India from being an importer to an exporter in the field of urea and fertilisers

The Central government along with cash-rich coal, power and oil PSUs will jointly invest over Rs 50,000 crore to revive closed fertiliser plants and set-up new gas pipelines, which would make India self-sufficient in urea by 2020-21 negating the need for imports.Briefing reporters after a mid-course assessment on revival of closed fertilizer plants in India, union fertilizer minister Ananth Kumar said that as and when all the five closed fertilizer units along start full-fledged operation, India's annual domestic urea production would rise to around 7.3 million tonnes, thereby meeting the demand of 31-32 million tonnes.Besides investing in rebuilding the shut urea plants at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Sindri in Jharkhand, Talcher in Odisha and Barauni in Bihar, about Rs 13,000 crore is being invested in laying a gas pipeline to connect the eastern region with rest of the country.Another Rs 6,000-8,000 crore is being invested in setting up a terminal to import liquefied natural gas ...