Trend of capacity, production and utilization in fertilizer industry

India’s capacity of nitrogen (N) fertilizer production was 14299.10 thousand tonnes in 2019-20 whereas the total production of nitrogen (N) was 13685 thousand tonnes which were 95.71% of total production. India’s total capacity to produce phosphate (P₂O₅) was 7279.20 thousand tonnes. During 2019-20 India’s utilization was only 65.82% of the total capacity and produces only 4791 thousand tonnes of phosphorus. The per annum growth in capacity, production and capacity utilization was 1.88%, 2.16% and 0.27% respectively for nitrogen. While capacity utilization of phosphate showed negative signs and declined by 1.37% annually. The per annum increase in capacity and production was attained by 3.99% and 2.56% respectively. Capacity utilization for both nitrogen and phosphorus was decreased from 2011 -2021 due to one of the new urea Plant remaining shut down during the entire year due to lack of availability of natural gas. Another urea plant remains non-operational due to financial constraints