New Delhi: World’s 1st Nano Urea Liquid isintroduced for thefarmers across the worldby Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) in the presence of its RGB members in its 50th annual general body meeting held online-offline mode in India. This is an inspirationtaken from the call ofthe Prime Minister of Indiafor reducing the use of Urea in the soil. The Nano Urea Liquid is indigenously developedafter many years of dedicated and sincere research of IFFCO’s Scientists and Engineersthrough a proprietary technology developed at Nano Biotechnology Research Centre, Kalol, in the tune of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ and ‘Atmanirbhar Krishi’. IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid found effective and efficient for plant nutrition. This increases the production with improved nutritional quality. It will also give a huge positive impact on the quality of underground water, very significant reduction in the global warming with an impact on climate change and sustainable development.
Translation of Nano Urea Liquid for farmers use will boost balanced nutrition program by reducing the excess use of Urea application in the soil. The excess urea causes an environmental pollution, harm soil health, and making plant more susceptible for disease & insect infestation, delayed maturity of the crop & production loss. Nano Urea Liquid make the crops stronger, healthy and protect them from lodging effect.
IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid is easy on the pocket of farmer and will be effective in increasing farmers income. A 500 ml bottle of IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid will replace at least one bag of conventional Urea. Hence, it will reduce the input cost to farmer. Due to the small size of Nano Urea Liquid, it’s bottle can be kept in the pocket and will significantly bring down the cost of logistics and warehousing also.
IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid is now included in Fertiliser Control Order (FCO, 1985) on the basis of multi- location and multi-crop trials undertaken under National Agriculture Research System (NARS) at 20 ICAR research institutes, State Agriculture Universities and KVKs on 43 crops. To test its efficacy around 11,000 farmer field trials (FFT’s) were undertaken on more than 94 crops across India.In the recent countrywide trials conducted on 94 crops, an average 8% increase in yield has been witnessed.
IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid is developed to replace conventional Urea and it can curtail the requirement of the same by at least50%. It contains 40,000 ppm of Nitrogen in 500 ml bottle whichis equivalent to theimpact of nitrogen nutrient provided by onebag of conventional Urea.
The productionof IFFCO Nano Urea Liquid willcommenceby Juneof 2021. The commercial rollout will start soon thereafter. IFFCO haspricedNano Ureaat₹240 per 500 ml bottle for the farmers which is 10% cheaper than the cost of a bag of conventional Urea. The Cooperative has planned a massive countrywide campaign exercise to demonstrate & train the farmers about its usage and application. It will be primarilyavailable to farmers through its cooperative sales and marketing channelapart from its sale on IFFCO’s e-commerce platform www.iffcobazar.in.
