In good news for fertilizer industry, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Anant Kumar, asserted that the country would become self-reliant in urea and fertilizer in next four years. The minister also unveiled the plans of turning the country from current urea import country to one which will be an export focused country. He also emphasized upon government’s decision of not hiking urea price hike for the next four years, according to the new urea policy.
However, listing out various steps taken by the NDA government in last one year, Minister highlighted numbers of efforts were taken by the Prime Minister to reopen all closed urea and fertiliser plants in the country, including those in Sindri (Jharkhand) and Barauni (Bihar) and further reiterated the target of producing 70 lakh metric tonnes of urea in the country and steps to open plants in Assam, Telangana, Odisha and other parts of the country.
Ananth highlighted government’s decision to add 200 million tonnes of steel production in the next 10 years to the current output of 100 million tonnes and also took a note of government’s plans of to start four new steel plants of 3-million tonne capacity in Karnataka, Odisha, Bengal and Chhattisgarh with an investment of Rs 240,000 crore.
Start Research-backed Investing ...Now. Subscribe to Sapphire
MoneyWorks4Me is a SEBI-registered Investment Adviser (IA) dedicated to helping investors build long-term wealth through transparent, research-driven, conflict-free guidance. Founded in 2008, we started our journey as a Research Analyst (RA), providing deep fundamental analysis, intrinsic value insights, and long-term investing frameworks for Indian equities. In 2017, we transitioned to a full-fledged SEBI-registered Investment Adviser, strengthening our commitment to acting as a fiduciary—always putting the investor’s interest first.
To become India’s most trusted, research-powered fiduciary advisory platform—where every investor, regardless of experience, can make calm, confident, and well-reasoned investment decisions.
MoneyWorks4Me ensures this through: