Sales of Urea, MOP and complex fertilizers during May were recorded at 88-96 per cent of the requirement whereas the DAP off take was about 60 per cent of the estimated demand despite the government claim of making phosphatic fertilizer available almost double of the quantity required for the month. Total sales of all these four categories of fertilizers have risen 14 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal, according to official data.
Overall consumption of key fertilizers – Urea, Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), Muriate of Potash (MOP) and Complex – increased to 58.32 lakh tonnes (lt) during April-May from 51.29 lt year-ago. Complex fertilizer is a combination of nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potash (K) and sulphur (S) nutrients.
Sales of urea were 12.5 per cent higher at 35.79 lt from 31.81 lt year-ago, while those of MOP rose 39.5 per cent to 2.4 lt as against 1.72 lt and complex increased by 37.2 per cent to 12.24 lt from 8.92 lt year-ago. But, sales of DAP dropped 10.7 per cent to 7.89 lt from 8.84 lt.
