Monthly domestic urea output back to last year’s levels

NEW DELHI: Monthly home urea accumulation has rebounded to past year’s levels, fertiliser ministry said connected Thursday, noting that output of the astir wide utilized ungraded nutrient reached 21 lakh tonnes successful April, which was the aforesaid arsenic the level recorded a twelvemonth earlier.In March, home urea output had tumbled to astir 16 lakh tonnes owed to the West Asia struggle disrupting LNG supplies. Up to 97% of earthy state proviso has present been restored. In April past year, home urea accumulation was adjacent to 22 lakh tonne.Aparna Sharma, further caput successful fertiliser ministry, said accrued home production, robust opening banal and assured imports of ungraded nutrients volition beryllium capable to conscionable the request for kharif crops.

She added that since the opening of conflict, 78 lakh tonnes of fertilisers — urea, Diammonium Phosphate (DAP), Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P) and Potassium (K) oregon NPKs, and Single Super Phosphate (SSP) — person been added to the banal done home accumulation and imports.She said, “Fertiliser availability remains robust, and supplies proceed to transcend the requirement.” As of Thursday, the wide banal stood astatine 193.8 lakh tonnes, which is 50% of the estimated request of 320 lakh tonnes for the full kharif season.Government has maintained that contempt the spike successful planetary prices of cardinal fertilisers, retail prices person been kept unchanged to guarantee farmers don’t get impacted.