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Indian fertilizer company eyeing big orders from African countries

Indian fertilizer company eyeing big orders from African countries

Despite enormous logistic and other challenges posed by COVID-19 lockdown, Hindustan Insecticides Limited (India) is making all efforts to ensure adequate supply of insecticides to farmer community in the country and at the same time eyeing big export orders of DDT from African countries.

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NEW DELHI, 12 May 2020: Despite enormous logistic and other challenges posed by COVID 19 lockdown, Hindustan Insecticides Limited (India), a PSU under Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, is making all efforts to ensure adequate supply of insecticides to farmer community in the country and at the same time eying big export orders of DDT from African countries.

HIL  has written letter to ten southern African Development Community (SADC) for supply of DDT in view of warning issued by World Health Organisation about increase in Malaria cases in the region in coming months.

During the lockdown period till 7 May 2020 in the country, HIL produced 120.40 metric tonnes, DDT Technical, 226.00 metric tonnes DDT 50% WDP, 85.00MT Malathion Technical, 16.38 metric tonnes Hilgold and 27.66 metric tonnes formulations so that the farmer community may not feel the heat of lockdown.

Apart from this Malathion Technical production is also continuing  for Locust control programme. Continues supply of malathion technical to ministry of agriculture's locust control programme in Rajasthan and Gujrat is Done. DDT 50% wdp dispatched to Odisha (30 MT) as per NVBDCP supply order.

Manufacturing units of HIL are running by maintaining social distancing and with minimum manpower as per  Standard operating procedure -SOP in this regard. Sanitization level in all these units has been increased. All workplace, plants, trucks and buses entering factory are being sanitized frequently. 

During the last week company’s total sale stood at INR 278.82 lakh. This included the sale of agrochemicals, fertilizers and seeds. Online tender’s   processing and procurement activities are also being carried out.

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