AgribusinessBCIC wants the Ashuganj fertiliser plant, the TSP complex and the DAP factory, idle for want of gas and phosphoric acid, running by November, and plans to raise annual output to 2.7 million tonnes in three to five years.
BCIC's Ashuganj urea factory, shut by the gas shortage, could produce 528,000 tonnes a year if it receives about 56 million cubic feet of gas a day without interruption, cutting fertiliser imports and foreign-currency spending, people in the sector say.
KRIBHCO and HURL want new plants at Gorakhpur and Indo Rama one at Jagdishpur, with a third at Shahjahanpur; the Centre is expected to decide within a month as India imports a quarter of its urea.
OpinionJournalist and columnist Hasan Mamun writes in Samakal that falling domestic gas output has deepened reliance on LNG and LPG imports; fertiliser factories cannot run properly for want of gas, with the input-hungry boro season approaching.
CUFL restarted on 15 September after six months idle for want of gas, broke down two days later, and returned to urea production on Tuesday afternoon after repairs.
AgribusinessCoal India Limited and Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited have signed an MoU to explore making ammonia and urea from domestic coal at HURL's Sindri unit in Jharkhand, to cut reliance on imported fertiliser and gas.
A seal leak in the RC pump and low gas pressure mean no production before Saturday; the 1,100-tonne-a-day factory made only 65,000 tonnes of urea in all of 2025-26.
Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited has been receiving gas to demand for about a week and resumed ammonia production on 9 September; once mechanical faults are fixed the plant expects to turn out 1,000 tonnes of urea a day.
