The fertilizer cooperative IFFCO’s Uttar Pradesh based Aonla Unit produced the first batch of Nano Urea as trial production of the second Nano Urea manufacturing unit in India after Kalol, Gujarat. This led to cheers not only among the Aonla unit but also in the rest of the IFFCO family.
Buoyed with the success of meeting the trial production deadline, talking to the Indian Cooperative, Aonla Unit head Rakesh Puri said, “The trial production has been done and found in compliance with the standard of the Fertilizer Control Order (FCO). Now the plant is ready to produce the Nano Urea (Liquid) bottles”.
“Initially we produced a thousand of Nano Urea bottles and the plant capacity is producing two lakh bottles per day which will be increased accordingly in the coming days”, he added.
IFFCO Chairman Dileep Sanghani also congratulated the IFFCO team in general and its MD Dr U S Awasthi in particular. He wrote on his twitter wall, “Keeping in mind the Prime Minister’s inspiration of ‘self-reliant India and self-reliant agriculture’, IFFCO has started trial production of a second Nano urea plant Aonla. Congratulations to the team including the Managing Director of IFFCO.”
Besides, IFFCO Marketing Director Yogendra Kumar and other senior officials of IFFCO lost no time congratulating Awasthi. Leaders of IFFCO’s Officers’ and Employees’ unions which included Jitendra Tiwari, among others, also rushed to the MD office to greet him on this occasion.
It bears recalling that IFFCO is planning to have eight Nano Urea Plants and Aonla is second after Kalol, where production is going on in a full-fledged manner.
IFFCO Aonla uses about 600 acres of dedicated land, while the entire Nano set up including its reactors, bottling, and storage is confined to merely nine acres of land.
Last month, the Indian Cooperative team visited the Nano Urea site at IFFCO Aonla Unit and was impressed by the work of a dedicated team who were busy giving finishing touches to meet the deadline. They have proved themselves by meeting the deadline!
