Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah performed the Bhumi Pujan and laid the foundation stone of IFFCO Nano DAP (Liquid) Plant at Gandhidham, Gujarat on Saturday (today).
On this occasion, Gujarat Home Minister IFFCO Chairman Dileep Sanghani, MD Dr U S Awasthi, Gujarat Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi, State Cooperation Minister Jagdish Vishwakarma and others were present.
In his address, Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has set a target of making 15 crore farmers of the country prosperous with the vision of ‘Sahkar se Samridhi’ by forming the Ministry of Cooperation. He said that the upcoming plant at Gandhidham would produce more than IFFCO’s existing plant producing 3 million tonnes of DAP.
The Union Minister of Cooperation said that liquid fertilizer is going to give multi-dimensional benefits to the country’s economy and the agriculture sector. Spraying of Nano DAP (liquid) will not pollute the land, which will further ease the natural farming, increase soil fertility along with agricultural production and will promote land conservation.
He further said that IFFCO DAP (liquid) does not go inside the ground, but remains on the top of the crop, due to which not only the benefits of DAP become available to the crop, but the land is also preserved. DAP (Liquid) will not pollute water, increase production, keep price affordable, reduce government subsidy burden and reduce imports to make India self-sufficient in the field of urea and DAP, he stated.
Congratulating IFFCO for this important initiative, he said that IFFCO has not only introduced Nano Fertilizer for the first time in the world, but has also helped in achieving the goal of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to make India self-reliant in the Fertilizer sector.
Shri Amit Shah said that when fertilizers are available in the right quantity and at the right price, farmers become more prosperous.
He said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Modi, this country once again needs a green revolution, but this green revolution will be of a different type and its goal will not be just production. Shri Shah said that the days are gone when we had to import wheat and rice from other countries.
Today, due to the hard work of our scientists, the continuous efforts of many governments and the scientific planning of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in the last nine years, India has become self-reliant in the field of food. The Union Minister of Cooperation said that in the new green revolution, India will have to show the way of natural farming to the world and for this green revolution of natural farming is required.
He said that such a type of green revolution has to be brought so that farmers get more value for their produce and they can get maximum yield per acre. Along with this, the green revolution will help in exporting the organic products of Indian farmers to all over the world and will make India more prosperous.
The Union Minister of Cooperation said that IFFCO has not borrowed a single rupee from the bank for the plant which will be set up in Gandhidham at a cost of about Rs. 350 crore on 70 acres, IFFCO has 100 percent equity in it.
He said that IFFCO’s equity means 4 crore farmers’ equity as IFFCO’s money goes back to the farmer through PACS and rest through cooperative societies. He said that from this plant 2 lakh nano urea bottles of 500 ml each would be sent across the country and the world,
which would reduce the import of 60 million bags of urea and India would become self-reliant in the field of fertilizer.
He said that this would also save fertilizer subsidies of about Rs.10,000 crore, which would come back to the farmers, it will also save foreign exchange of about Rs. 3,500 crore. Shri Shah expressed confidence that the production of liquid DAP will start in this factory within a year. This plant has been built on the basis of zero liquid discharge, which will protect the environment and reduce the cost of fertilizers.
