PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates World’s First Nano Urea Plant By IFFCO

HT Bureau
GUWAHATI, May 31: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, inaugurated the World’s first Nano Urea Liquid plant by IFFCO at Kalol, Gujarat to provide farmers the means to boost productivity and help increase their income. The Prime Minister further dedicated the plant to the service of the nation in a ceremony held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Amit Shah, Union Home minister and minister of Cooperation; chief minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel, and Union minister of Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilisers Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya were also present at the ceremony.
The Prime Minister informed that the power of one bag of urea will now be available to farmers in half-liter bottles of urea, which will reduce transportation costs and immensely benefit small farmers thereby further empowering them. He further added, “The state-of-the-art nano-urea plant of IFFCO at Kalol can produce 1.5 lakh bottles of urea per day and the government plans to set up eight more such plants. This will truly revolutionise the sector and make agriculture in India Atma Nirbhar by reducing dependence on urea imports.”
Meanwhile, Amit Shah, minister of Home Affairs and minister of Co-operation, Government of India, congratulated the whole team of IFFCO including their scientists for their path-breaking initiative in producing nano- fertiliser which will bring a new revolution in the agro sector of India.
Notably, IFFCO has set up additional manufacturing facilities for the production of Nano Fertilisers at Aonla, Phulpur, Kalol (Expansion), Bengaluru, Paradeep, Kandla, Deoghar (Bihar), and Guwahati Units for the Production of Nano Urea, Nano DAP and Nano Micro Nutrients at different locations. All these units shall have a design production capacity of 2 lakh bottles per day with a total investment of Rs 3000 crore of which Rs 720 crore is already committed and will generate employment for thousands of people.
Dr. US Awasthi, MD IFFCO informed us about the functioning of the plant and its various technologies with the help of a walkthrough video of the plant, which was shown live during the launch. He further added that the vehicle of the Nano Urea revolution will be drones, as they would introduce modern farming techniques and practices.
Chairman IFFCO, Dileep Sanghani maintained that Nano Urea Liquid has been made in line with PM Modi’s vision of Atma Nirbhar Bharat and Sahkar se Samriddhi with the core aim of increasing farmer’s income. Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO) had earlier last year introduced the World’s first IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) which is included in the Fertiliser Control Order (FCO, 1985). IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) was indigenously developed through a proprietary technology at IFFCO’s Nano Biotechnology Research Centre (NBRC) at Kalol, Gujarat. The first production unit at Kalol has been made with an investment of Rs 175 crore and at present has a production capacity of 1.5 lakh 500 ml bottles of Nano Urea per day.