Yadav, who was till now Vice-Chairman of Kribhco, will replace Vaghjibhai Rugnathbhai Patel as Chairman of the cooperative.
"The members of the cooperative today unanimously elected Yadav as Chairman," the cooperative said in a statement.
The earlier Chairman Patel will become the Vice-Chairman.
At present, Kribhco has one urea plant in Hazira in Gujarat having annual capacity of 22 lakh tonnes.
Besides, the cooperative has one plant in Shajhanpur in Uttar Pradesh in partnership with the Shyam group with capacity of 10 lakh tonnes. It has another plant in Oman in partnership with IFFCO.