Chandigarh, (Aditi) : Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the World’s first Nano Urea Liquid plant by IFFCO at Kalol, Gujarat in an effort to provide farmers the means to boost productivity & help increase their income. A Giant Step towards Atmanirbhar Bharat & Atmanirbhar Krishi. PM dedicated the Ultramodern Nano Urea Liquid Fertilizer plant to the service of the Nation at a ceremony held at Gandhinagar Gujarat. Shri Amit Shah, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya were present at the ceremony.
IFFCO has set up additional manufacturing facilities for production of Nano Fertilisers at Aonla, Phulpur, Kalol (Expansion), Bengaluru and Paradeep, Kandla, Deoghar (Bihar) and Guwahati Units for Production of Nano Urea, Nano DAP and Nano Micro Nutrients at different locations. All these units shall have design production capacity of 2 Lakh Bottles per day with a total investment ₹3000 Cr of which ₹ 720 Cr is already committed and will generate employment for thousands of people. Dr. U S Awasthi, MD IFFCO informed about the functioning of the plant and its various technologies with the help of a walkthrough video of the plant, which was shown live through the launch.
The usage of IFFCO Nano Urea were shown in a film to more than 7000 farmers & Co-operators present there, the inspiration of which was taken from Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of reducing the use of Urea in the soil. He said that the vehicle of the Nano Urea revolution will be drones, as they would introduce modern farming techniques and practices.
MD IFFCO, Dr. U S Awasthi said that Nano Urea liquid has been found to be very effective in increasing the nutritional quality & productivity of crop and has a huge positive impact on the quality of underground water & environment thus resulting in significant reduction in Global Warming. He informed that 3.60 crores of bottles of IFFCO Nano urea Liquid have been produced out of which 2.50 crores have already been sold.