PM Narendra Modi inaugurates world’s first Nano Urea plant by IFFCO in Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the world’s first nano urea liquid plant by Indian Farmers’ Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) at Kalol in Gujarat.
The virtual inauguration took place at a ceremony held at Gandhinagar, in presence of Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, along with Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel and Union Minister of chemicals and fertilisers, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya.
The first IFFCO nano urea (liquid) production unit at Kalol has been made with an investment of Rs 175 crore and at present has the capacity to produce 1.5 Lakh bottles of 500ml capacity of nano urea per day.
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 for production of nano urea, nano DAP and nano micronutrients at different locations.
Dr US Awasthi, MD, IFFCO said, “Nano urea liquid has been found to be very effective in increasing the nutritional quality and productivity of the crop and improves quality of underground water. Some 3.60 crore bottles of IFFCO nano urea liquid have been produced of which 2.50 crores have already been sold.”
IFFCO nano urea liquid was developed through the proprietary technology at IFFCOs Nano Biotechnology Research Centre (NBRC) in Kalol.