New Delhi (31.05.2021): Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has innovated and introduced the World’s 1st Nano Urea Liquid in the presence of its representative general body (RGB) members at its 50th annual general body meeting held online-offline.
IFFCO innovated and produced in the lab the nano urea liquid following PM Narendra Modi's call to reduce the excessive and indiscriminate use of urea to save the farm fields and underground water resources from the increasing incidence of poisonous nitrate pollution.
The development of IFFCO's Nano Urea Liquid is the fruition of several years of dedicated and sincere research of inhouse Scientists and Engineers through a proprietary technology developed at Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, Kalol, Gujarat. It will contribute to realizing the dream of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Krishi’.
IFFCO says its Nano Urea Liquid is effective as it increases production with improved nutritional quality.
Besides preventing further degradation of underground water resources, nano urea will also help the country meet its carbon reduction commitment under the Paris Convention.
IFFCO says Nano Urea Liquid makes the plants stronger, healthy, and protects them from the lodging effect.
A 500 ml bottle of IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid, says IFFCO, will replace at least one bag of conventional Urea. Hence, it will reduce the input cost to farmers. Due to the small size of Nano Urea Liquid, its bottle can be kept in the pocket and will significantly bring down the cost of logistics and warehousing also.
IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid is now included in Fertiliser Control Order (FCO, 1985) on the basis of multi-location and multi-crop trials undertaken under the National Agriculture Research System (NARS) at 20 ICAR research institutes, State Agriculture Universities and KVKs on 43 crops. To test its efficacy around 11,000 farmer field trials (FFT’s) were undertaken on more than 94 crops across India. In the recent countrywide trials conducted on 94 crops, an average 8% increase in yield has been witnessed.
IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid will reduce conventional Urea consumption by at least 50%. It contains 40,000 ppm of Nitrogen in a 500 ml bottle which is equivalent to the impact of nitrogen nutrient provided by one bag of conventional Urea.
The company will start producing Nano Urea Liquid in June 2021. The commercial rollout will start soon thereafter. It is priced at ₹ 240 per 500 ml bottle for the farmers which is 10% cheaper than the cost of a bag of conventional Urea. The Cooperative has planned a massive countrywide campaign exercise to demonstrate & train the farmers about its usage and application.
It will be primarily available to farmers through its cooperative sales and marketing channel apart from its sale on IFFCO’s e-commerce platform
www.iffcobazar.in.
