KALOL/Gujarat, 19 June 2022: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently 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.
PM dedicated the Ultramodern Nano Urea Liquid Fertilizer plant to the service of the Nation at a ceremony held at Gandhinagar Gujarat.
Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, Chief Minister of Gujarat Bhupendra Patel Ji and Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya were present at the event.
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 INR 3000 crore of which INR 720 crore 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 the farmers & Cooperators present there, the inspiration of which was taken from Honorable Prime Minister vision of reducing the use of Urea in the soil.
He said that the vehicle of the Nano Urea revolution will be the drones, as it will introduce modern farming techniques and practices.
Dr. U S Awasthi, MD IFFCO 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 the 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, 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 farmers income.
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO) had earlier last year introduced the world's first IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) & which is included in Fertiliser Control Order (FCO, 1985). IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) was indigenously developed through the proprietary technology at IFFCOs Nano Biotechnology Research Centre (NBRC) in Kalol, Gujarat .
The First IFFCO Nano Urea (Liquid) production unit at Kalol has been made with an investment of INR 175 crore and at present has the capacity to produce 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.