Chemicals and Fertilizers

So farmers and agriculture don a grayish, sooty shade after hogging news mostly as victims and the ignored. Farmers, especially in the Punjab to UP belt burn paddy stubble to clear the field in order to prepare it for sowing wheat. The smoke from these burning fields has reportedly added ...

Bio Diesel is an environment friendly fuel which has no sulphur, no aromatics and has 10% built in oxygen. It does not require infrastructure for storage and dispensing. The plant that produces Bio-Diesel is Jatropha and Soyabean. With the R&D, it has been found that with the blend in diesel ...

India is soon going to become urea surplus nation and will start exporting as it plans to produce additional 20 million tonnes of the fertiliser this year, said Fertiliser Minister Ananth Kumar. The country consumes 31 million tonnes of urea annually, out of which 23 mt is produced and rest ...

New Jan Ausadhi Store (JAS) The JAS scheme launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, and Indian government, aims to make quality generic medicines throughout the country. Currently, the scheme focuses on opening a JAS in every district of all the states and it is expected ...

News: Germany-based Henkel AG will invest about 30 million euro (around Rs 210 crore) to set up an adhesives plant near Pune in Maharashtra, having an annual capacity of about 80,000 tonnes of adhesives and surface treatments, through its subsidiary Henkel Adhesive Technologies India Pvt Ltd. The new plant is expected ...

 The Department of Fertilizers has procured more than 10 Lakh MT of imported Urea in January 2015 for propositioning in the States. Additional procurement of imported Urea has been done in April, May & June 2015. With increased domestic production by 10 Lakh MTs and reduction of demand due to ...

News The Government proposes to soon open 1000 more stores under the ‘Jan Aushadhi Scheme’ to make available quality generic medicines at affordable prices through these special outlets. Speaking at a function organised by the Indian Social Responsibility Network (ISRN) a facilitation network to build the corporate social responsibility (CSR) ...

News The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today gave its approval for setting up of a new Ammonia-Urea Complex of 8.64 Lakh Metric Tonnes annual capacity with an estimated investment of Rs. 4500 crore at Namrup in Assam on Public Private Partnership (PPP) route by ...

News The Union Cabinet  gave its approval for the revival of closed urea unit of Fertilizer Corporation India Limited (FCIL) at Sindri (Jharkhand) with an investment of Rs 6000 crore. The CCEA earlier had approved gas pooling for urea sector which will enable the unit to get gas at pooled ...

News Taking note of slow progress in revival of eight closed fertiliser units, a Parliament panel has recommended “expeditious” revival of sick and closed units within a fixed time-frame. At present, all five plants of Fertiliser Corporation of India (FCIL) and three plants of the Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation Ltd (HFCL) ...