Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, along with Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers, among other dignitaries, inaugurated IFFCO’s Nano DAP (Liquid) Plant in Kalol, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Addressing the inauguration program, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah said, ‘Today is a very important day for the entire Western India including Gujarat as IFFCO’s Nano DAP (Liquid) plant has been inaugurated at Kalol in Gandhinagar district.’
Minister of Cooperation, while congratulating the IFFCO team for taking India first in the world in Nano Urea and Nano DAP, said that India is an agricultural country blessed with large and fertile cultivable land and climate suitable for three to four crops, a combination not to be found anywhere else in the world. India is the only country where in the last 75 years we have developed such a system that farmers can do farming every month.
He also highlighted that it is the responsibility of the cooperative institutions of India to bridge the gap between the requirement and production of food grains in the country. After ten years, when the list of biggest experiments done in agricultural sector would be prepared, IFFCO’s Nano Urea and Nano DAP will find a place in it.
The need of the hour is to reduce the use of urea and move towards natural farming but at the same time there is also a need to increase production. The Nano Urea is sprayed not on the ground but on the plants and due to this, there is a zero possibility of destruction of natural elements or the earthworms present in the soil. If all the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) use Nano Urea and Nano DAP in partnership with IFFCO then very soon our land will move towards natural farming.
The establishment of IFFCO’s state-of-the-art plants across India exemplifies an exemplary manifestation of the Make in India initiative. Notably, the Kalol unit of IFFCO is expected to generate approximately 42 lakh bottles of environmentally friendly Nano DAP, bringing tangible benefits to farmers. Despite the fact, 60 percent of our nation’s populace relies on agriculture for livelihood and 60 percent of the country’s land is suitable for agricultural purposes, the agricultural sector and farmers have long been overlooked.
Minister urged the top officials of IFFCO to compile a book on the journey of Nano Urea and DAP so far. He also informed that the three factories have become operational in Kalol, Phulpur and Ambla and so far 8 crore bottles have come in the market and it is going to be expanded to 18 crore bottles in the coming days. Nanotechnology is going to bring a big change in plant nutrition and it is economical and full of nutrients. This also leads to savings of about 8 to 20 percent.
