Fertilizer Plant

Three persons, including two women, were killed and nine others hospitalised following a gas leak after a blast in a reactor at a fertiliser plant in Maharashtra's Sangli district, an official said on Friday. The incident took place around 6.30 pm on Thursday at the Myanmar Chemical Company in Shalgaon MIDC of Kadegaon tehsil in the district, he said. Police said a reactor at the fertiliser plant exploded releasing chemical fumes. Due to the gas leak, some 12 people in the unit were affected and taken to hospital. Of them, two women workers and a security guard have died. Nine others are being treated, said Sangram Shewale, senior inspector of Kadegaon police station. Sangli Superintendent of Police Sandip Ghuge said the gas is suspected to be ammonia. Seven of the injured persons have been admitted to Sahyadri Hospital in Karad and five of them are in the ICU, said another official. The two women who lost their lives have been identified as Suchita Uthale (50) of Yetgaon in Sang

As Hurricane Milton pummelled Florida's west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists worry it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state's phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways. More than 1 billion tons of slightly radioactive phosphogypsum waste is stored in stacks that resemble enormous ponds at risk for leaks during major storms. Florida has 25 such stacks, most concentrated around enormous phosphate mines and fertiliser processing plants in the central part of the state, and environmentalists say nearly all of them are in Milton's projected path. Placing vulnerable sites so close on major waterways that are at risk of damage from storms is a recipe for disaster, said Ragan Whitlock, a staff attorney at the environmental group Centre for Biological Diversity. These are ticking time bombs. Phosphogypsum, a solid waste byproduct from processing phosphate ore to make chemical ..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for projects worth Rs 35,700 crore in Jharkhand. Among various projects, he dedicated to the nation the Rs 8,900-crore fertiliser plant of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd in Sindri in Dhanbad district. The plant will add about 12.7 LMT (lakh metric tonne) per annum of indigenous urea production, benefiting farmers of the country. This is the third fertiliser plant to be revived in the country, after such facilities at Gorakhpur and Ramagundam, which were also dedicated to the nation by the prime minister in December 2021 and November 2022 respectively. India's urea production reached 310 lakh tonne now from 225 lakh tonne in 2014, a significant step towards self-dependence in fertiliser, he said. PM Modi also launched rail, power and coal projects worth over Rs 26,000 crore in Jharkhand. "Jharkhand got a gift of projects worth over Rs 35,000 crore. It was Modi's guarantee to revive the Sindri ...

Fertiliser cooperative Krishak Bharati Cooperative Ltd's (KRIBHCO) total income jumped 95 per cent to Rs 25,715.07 crore during last fiscal on better sales, and it declared a dividend of 20 per cent. Total income stood at Rs 13,194.50 crore in the previous year. Addressing its 43rd annual general meeting (AGM) here on Thursday, KRIBHCO's Chairman Chandra Pal Singh said the cooperative earned a pre-tax profit of Rs 763.16 crore in 2022-23. The profit before tax stood at Rs 1,493.26 crore in the previous year. The cooperative has declared a dividend of 20 per cent on equity capital for the year and the management has approved Rs 77.68 crore for dividend outgo, Singh said. The annual accounts of the cooperative have been approved by the members in the AGM. Net worth of KRIBHCO increased to Rs 5,128.61 crore last fiscal year from Rs 4,643.10 crore in FY22. "The total membership of KRIBHCO consists of 9,470 cooperative societies. The paid up share capital of the society was Rs 388.62

The detailed production plan and other targets are being finalised

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi would dedicate to the nation a fertilizer plant at Ramagundam in Telangana on Saturday, besides inaugurating and laying foundation stone for multiple development projects in the state. Modi would inaugurate the RFCL fertilizer plant at Ramagundam in Peddapalli district which has been revived at a cost of Rs 6,338 crore, Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said in a tweet. Commercial production in the plant began last year. Modi would also inaugurate 54.1 km of railway line from Bhadrachalam Road to Sattupalli built with a budget of Rs 990 crore. The PM will lay the foundation stone of various road projects which would be taken up with a budget of Rs 2,268 crore. Modi will address a public meeting at the Begumpet airport here on Saturday soon after his arrival, BJP sources said. Meanwhile, speculation is rife about the participation of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in the official events to be attended by the Prime Minister. Rao did not partici

Under 'One Nation One Fertiliser' all fertiliser bags, irrespective of their contents or the company that manufactures them, will carry a uniform brand name called "Bharat"

Per year, about 1-1.2 million tonnes of urea meant for farming gets diverted towards industrial use, say officials

Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the ministry is planning to bring production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the chemical sector to boost domestic production and exports

The joint venture will be located in the city of Krishnapatnam and will be able to process up to 1.2 million tons of NPK