Store nation's urine, end urea import: Nitin Gadkari's brainwave
5 years, 10 months ago

Store nation's urine, end urea import: Nitin Gadkari's brainwave

India TV News  

Lamenting that his out-of-box proposals often find no takers, Union minister Nitin Gadkari Sunday voiced another such idea: make urea from urine. We import urea, but if we start storing urine of entire country then we will not need to import urea, so much potential it has, and nothing will be wasted," the minister said. Because he could not get adequate hair in Nagpur, he had to purchase "five trucks of hair" from Tirupati every month, Gadkari said. "We are selling amino acid abroad and have order of about 180 containers of bio-fertiliser from the Dubai government," the Union minister, who controls Purti Group of Industries, said.

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India to swap 2.5m tonnes of conventional urea with nano urea in FY24: Minister
10 months, 1 week ago

India to swap 2.5m tonnes of conventional urea with nano urea in FY24: Minister

Live Mint  

India will replace the consumption of 2.5 million tonnes of conventional urea with nano urea in FY24, union chemicals and fertilisers minister Mansukh Mandaviya said at a press conference on Friday. “We will reduce 2.5 million tonnes of conventional urea consumption this year and replace it with an alternative fertiliser like nano urea. About 3.3 million tonnes of nano urea …

Nano-urea will help India save ₹15-20k cr, claims govt
1 year, 9 months ago

Nano-urea will help India save ₹15-20k cr, claims govt

Live Mint  

With the production of 170 million bottles of nano urea, around ₹15,000-20,000 crore could be saved on urea imports, Union fertilizer secretary Arun Singhal said. If 25% replacement achieved, the production of indigenous local urea containing nanoparticles of urea or nano urea would be 5 million tonnes by 2025. India spent $5.1 billion to import 8.1 million tonnes urea in …

India aims to end urea imports from 2025; pegs FY23 fertilisers subsidy at $27.2 billion
2 years, 2 months ago

India aims to end urea imports from 2025; pegs FY23 fertilisers subsidy at $27.2 billion

The Hindu  

India aims to end imports of urea from 2025 as the nation boosts its local production capacity with the commissioning of new plants, fertilisers minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Wednesday. Plants at Gorakhpur in northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Ramagundam in southern Telangana, and at Talcher, Barauni and Sindri in eastern India, would together produce 6.5 million tonnes of urea …

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