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The country's nano urea requirement for the ongoing 2024-25 rabi season is estimated at 2.36 crore bottles of 500 ml each, with Uttar Pradesh leading the demand, government data shows. The maximum requirement is from Uttar Pradesh at 43.38 lakh bottles, followed by Maharashtra (34.7 lakh bottles) and Punjab (20.82 lakh bottles). Haryana and Karnataka are estimated to require 17.35 lakh bottles each, while Rajasthan needs 15.01 lakh bottles and Madhya Pradesh 12.54 lakh bottles for this season. However, no requirement has been reported from Gujarat, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, and Andaman & Nicobar. The country currently has six operational nano urea plants with a combined annual capacity of 27.22 crore bottles. Three plants were commissioned in 2024 -- Meghmani Crop Nutrition's plant with a capacity of 5 crore bottles, Zuari Farm Hub and Coromandel International Ltd facilities with capacities of ...
Begins/As Sanand continues to make the Tiago, now expected to touch a production of 5,000 units a month, the flagship product of the site, the Nano has almost faded into the background. Amidst rumours that the company is contemplating to discontinue the Nano, numbers tell a story. Sanand produced only 515 Nanos in January, and sold even lesser, around 391 units. Cumulatively, between April 2016 to January 2017 it produced 7,472 units down 62 per cent from 19,686 units in the year before period. A total of 7,105 Nanos were sold during the April-January period in FY17, down 62 per cent. An Ahmedabad-based dealer of Tata cars who did not wish to be identified said that the new launches from the company's stable including the Tiago and now the Hexa have drawn considerable footfalls to the showrooms. In fact, the company saw its sales surge by 44 per cent to 104,395 units for compact segment which as per SIAM includes the Indica, Indigo CS, Zest, Bolt and the Tiago. Considering Indica and .