CropsA Kyungpook National University review says alternate wetting and drying cuts methane the most, and pairing it with deep urea placement, balanced fertiliser and low-emitting varieties cuts it further.
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.
Urea sales fell 4.1% to 18.52 million tonnes and NPK sales 22.2%, while domestic urea output rose 4.3% and NPK output dropped 35.5%; urea and MOP imports rose by more than 40%.
A national initiative launched in Punjab aims to test green ammonia as a nitrogen source on 10,000 acres across India this rabi season, with 1,800 demonstrations in Punjab alone.
CropsStoneX's Josh Linville says disruption in the Strait of Hormuz threatens urea, ammonia, phosphate and sulfur supplies, while about 90% of US potash imports depend on trade with Canada.
Siba Prasad Mohanty, managing director of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan, argues India must secure urea's feedstock, through green ammonia at Barauni and coal gasification at Sindri, not only its output.
AgribusinessIndia's 1.7-million-tonne urea tender, watched as a benchmark for world prices, cleared at softer levels after a year in which import prices swung from $959 a tonne to about $390.
AgribusinessPotassium chloride prices at Brazilian ports have fallen 10 percent after nine straight weekly declines, while urea has risen 20 percent in five weeks, because the two fertilisers come from very different suppliers.
CropsThe Jamuna Fertilizer Company in Jamalpur, back in production on Monday night after eight months without gas, stopped making urea again on Wednesday night after a boiler leak; managers expect a fix within a day or two.
CropsA raid at Shankarpasha ferry ghat on the Bhairab found 420.2 tonnes missing from two stockpiles held by M/s Total Shipping Agency, a BCIC urea carrier; its Khulna branch head was fined Tk 500,000.
AgribusinessThe IDA credit will import 600,000 tonnes, 500,000 of them urea, for the Aman and Boro seasons; BADC and BCIC will carry out the project.
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.
CropsFarmers on 16,000 hectares of aman in Koyra, Khulna, cannot get enough urea; the upazila agriculture officer says the allocation is below need and has asked for an extra sub-allocation.
