A Review of All-India Capacity, Production and Sale of Fertilisers during 2016-17

摘要

The year 2016-17 ended presenting a mixed scenario of marginal fall in N and modest increase in P production. Shortfall in availability of natural gas from domestic sources continued and the gap was fulfilled through imported LNG. Limitations in availability of ammonia and phosphoric acid were also experienced by some of the DAP/NP/NPK plants. Indian fertiliser industry continued to remain hard pressed with liquidity problem due to delay in payment of subsidy. Installed capacity of fertilisers increased marginally during 2016-17. There was large opening inventory of fertilisers at the beginning of the year. Despite normal monsoon, fresh sale of fertilisers remained subdued until old stocks were liquidated. The paper presents a review of fertiliser capacity, production, despatch and sale of fertilisers during 2016-17.