Agriculture holds a very important position in Indian
economy. It gives employment to more than 70% people of India. So it is
very important to improve the agricultural sector. For the crops to grow
healthy, it is very important that proper fertilizers should be given in
proper amount. With the growing demand for surplus crops, the role of
fertilizer companies has also increased. Fertilizer industry in India
has succeeded to meet the demand of fertilizers and thanks to the green
revolution of the sixties that the sector received a tremendous boom.
The first manufacturing unit of fertilizer industry in India was that of
Single Super Phosphate (SSP) in Ranipet, near Chennai. The bright future
of the fertilizer sector can be understood from the fact that India is
the third largest fertilizer producer of the world.
Status of Indian Fertilizer Industries
For long, Indian farmers used the traditional fertilizers such as humus
and manures to grow crops. Though they were helpful, but it became
extremely important to meet the demands of the country's food
requirement. So the use of modern fertilizers became the need of the
hour. Presently, the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers is the
administrative unit of two departments:
