Fertiliser cooperative Iffco's Joint Managing Director Rakesh Kapur has been elected as Vice-President of the Paris-based International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) for two years.
IFA has 540 Members covering 80 countries.
Kapur, an ex-IRS officer who has been with Iffco for the last 15 years, is also Chairman of the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI).
He will also hold the post of Chairman of IFA's finance committee. Besides Kapur, there are only two other members from South Asia on the board of IFA.
IFA's technical symposium is scheduled to take place in March next year in India.
Recently, Iffco in partnership with Japanese company Mitsubishi Corp forayed into the agrochemical sector and has rolled out 18 products with an aim to achieve Rs 130 crore turnover by March 2017.
