No more urea crisis for Bengal farmers: Dharmendra Pradhan
Union Petroleum and Natural Gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday said farmers of West Bengal will no longer face any crisis in urea supply after the Matix fertiliser plant is commissioned here. GAIL’S 348 km long Dobhi-Durgapur natural gas pipeline, which will be dedicated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will facilitate the fertiliser plant, he said.
The union minister said West Bengal requires about 1.5 million tonne of urea and the first 1.3 million tonne urea plant in the state will act as a boon for the farmers of the state.
“The Matix plant cannot produce urea due to lack of feedstock. The prime minister will dedicate the GAIL gas pipeline on February 7 which will connect this urea plant will help mitigate the urea crisis in the state,” Pradhan told reporters here.
Pradhan also paid a visit to Matix plant to review the feedstock connectivity infrastructure.
The plant is ready and its trial run had been conducted long back. But it could not commercialise production due to lack of gas, which is its feed stock. Matix expects commercial production by April 2021.
