Government ready with Action Plan to make India Aatmanirbhar in Rock Phosphate- the key raw material of DAP and NPK Fertlisers

Government ready with Action Plan to make India Aatmanirbhar in Rock Phosphate- the key raw material of DAP and NPK Fertlisers

Subject : Economy

Context : In order to improve the availability of phosphaticfertilisers (DAP and NPK) and to reduce the dependence on imports, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers chaired a meeting

Concept :

• Rock phosphates or phosphorites are sedimentary phosphatic deposits comprising fine-grained mixture of various calcium phosphates, most important being hydroxylapatite, carbonateapatite, fluorapatite and their solid solutions.
• About 80% phosphate production in the world is derived from phosphate rocks (phosphorite)
• Rock Phosphate is the key raw material for DAP and NPK fertilisers and India is 90% dependent on imports.
• Of the total reserves/resources, 34% are in Jharkhand, 31% in Rajasthan, 19% in Madhya Pradesh, 8% in Uttar Pradesh & Uttarakhand each , respectively. Meagre quantities of resources are also located in Gujarat and Meghalaya.