Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today 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.
Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India said that he feels extremely happy to inaugurate world’s first nano-fertiliser plant. He further said that the power of one bag of urea will now be available to farmers in a half litre bottle of urea, which will reduce transportation cost and immensely benefit small farmers thereby further empowering them. Shri Modi also said that 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 revolutionize the sector and make agriculture in India Atmanirbhar by reducing dependence on urea imports.
Shri 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- fertilizer which will bring a new revolution in agro sector of India.
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.
Chairman IFFCO, Shri Dileep Sanghani said Nano Urea Liquid has been made in line with the PM Modi’s vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Sahkar se Samriddhi with the 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 IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) production unit at Kalol has been made with an investment of ₹175 Crores and at present has a production capacity of 1.5 Lakh 500 ml bottles of Nano Urea per day. IFFCO’s Nano Urea liquid is a revolutionary product and is a step forward towards Sustainable Agriculture.
About IFFCO
IFFCO World’s No.1 processed fertiliser cooperative was started in the year 1967 by only 57 Indian cooperatives with an aim for the betterment of Indian farmers and ensuring food security for the country. Over the past 54 years, IFFCO has remained committed to this cause by providing excellent Agri-services & good quality soil nutrients to the Indian farmers.
IFFCO developed World’s first Nano fertiliser, IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid and commercially introduced with an aim to reduce the use of chemical fertiliser, a giant step towards Sustainable Agriculture. IFFCO’s Nano Urea has been developed keeping in mind Hon’ble PM’s initiative of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Krishi’ which will lead to increase in farmers income. An organization with Local and global reach, IFFCO has been constantly contributing to increase in the food productivity through its diversified range of Nitrogenous, Phosphatic, Biofertilisers ,Water Soluble Fertilisers along with other speciality fertilisers.
IFFCO is linked directly to Five crore farmers through more than 36000 cooperative societies across the country. IFFCO is World’s number 1 & the biggest processed fertiliser cooperative with a group turnover of more than INR 40,000 Crore (in FY 2021-22). IFFCO has five state of the art fertiliser manufacturing plants in India producing 87.02 Lakh MT of fertilisers. IFFCO contributes to around 32.1% of Phosphatic and 21.3% of Nitrogenous fertilisers produced in India and was ranked first amongst the Top 300 Cooperatives in the world (by Turnover on GDP per capita basis) by the World Cooperative Monitor Report. IFFCO has moved to 57th position in the fortune 500 list of companies. With Joint ventures in Oman, Dubai and Jordan, IFFCO has made its presence global. Besides Fertilisers, IFFCO has diversified into sectors like General Insurance, Rural Mobile telephony, rural ecommerce, SEZ, and international trading, food processing, urban gardening, Organics and E-Bazar in Rural retailing amongst others. IFFCO over the years have demonstrated its commitment towards socially responsible practices through its initiatives like CORDET and IFFDC that aim at empowering the entire farmer community.
IFFCO along with Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun has developed special variety of neem which bears fruit early as compared to the traditional variety. This research has helped numerous farmers gain an additional source of income at the same time solved the need for Neem oil for Urea production units.
