New Delhi, March 24 India's urea production reached 275.75 lakh tonnes in the first eleven months of this fiscal, the government said on Tuesday.
The country's urea production stood at 306.67 lakh tonnes for the entire 2024-25 fiscal.
"Currently, there are 33 urea manufacturing units in the country with a total production capacity of 269.42 lakh tonnes per annum," said Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Anupriya Patel in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The government has taken several steps to boost domestic urea production in the last 11 years, she said.
These steps have "facilitated an increase in urea production from a level of 225 lakh tonnes per annum during 2014-15 to a record urea production of 314.07 lakh tonnes during 2023-24.
"During 2024-25, 306.67 lakh tonnes of urea was produced in the country," Patel said.
In response to a separate query, she said that the sales of Nano Urea and Nano DAP during April-January 2025-26 stood at 182.50 lakh bottles and 144.93 lakh bottles (equivalent to 500 ml), respectively.
