India to stop importing urea by end of 2025

April 8, 2024

According to the Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mansukh Mandaviya, India will stop importing urea by the end of 2025 due to an increase in local production capacity with the commissioning of new fertilizer plants.
India is a big importer of Urea and meets around 30% of its 35 million tonnes of annual urea requirement from imports.
The urea production in the country increased from 08 lakh tonnes in 2014-15 to 284.95 lakh tonnes in 2022-23.
In 2022-23, the total import of Urea was 75.8 lakh tonnes, which is around 30% of the domestic demand. The main sources of urea imports are Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.
The government of India introduced the New Urea Policy 2015 with the aim of boosting indigenous urea production.
Under the New Urea Policy, the government plans to revive closed fertilizer plants at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Ramagundam in Telangana, Talcher in Odisha, Barauni in Bihar, and Sindri in Jharkhand. Four plants have already been revived, and the fifth will soon be revived.