At present, there are 64 large size fertilizer units in the country, manufacturing a wide range of nitrogenous and phosphatic/complex fertilizers. Of these, 39 units produce urea, 18 units produce DAP and complex fertilizers, 7 units produce low analysis straight nitrogenous fertilizers and 9 of the above units produce ammonium sulphate as a by-product. Besides, there are about 79 small and medium scale units producing single superphosphate. The total installed capacity of fertilizer production in the country which was 104.98 lakh tonnes of nitrogen and 29.51 lakh tonnes of phosphate as on 1.4.98 has risen to 110.71 lakh tonnes of nitrogen and 36.48 lakh tonnes of phosphate as on 29.2.2000.

The production of nitrogenous fertilizers during 1998-99 was 104.80 lakh tonnes of nitrogen and that of phosphatic fertilizers 31.41 lakh tonnes of phosphate. The production target for 1999-2000 was fixed at 110.67 lakh tonnes of nitrogen and 33.45 lakh tonnes of phosphate, representing a growth rate of 5.6% in nitrogen and 6.5% in phosphate, as compared to the actual production in 1998-99. As against this, the actual production upto February 2000 was at 101.16 lakh tonnes of nitrogen and 30.40 lakh tonnes of phosphate. Taking ‘N’ &’P’ together, there was an overall growth of 5.3% over the production during the corresponding period of last year.