—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 24, 1974
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India Hopes To Have
(Continued from Pa|i 12|
accounted for about 10
percent of total Indian
production capacity for
nitrogen fertilizer.
The new public factories
that began operating in 1973-
74 at Durgapur and Cochin
produced only token
quantities of fertilizer, and
are not expected to approach
even 50 percent of capacity
m 1974-75 since about 3 years
usually are needed to reach
normal operating capacity.
Another FCI factory is
scheduled to open in October
at Barauni. It also has a
capacity to produce 152,000
nutrient tons of nitrogen
fertilizer annually the
same as the factories at
Durgapur and Cochin.
In December, the ex
panded facilities at Namrup
are scheduled to begin
operating again adding
the same volume of capacity
as that at each of the other
FCI installations.
In December, a large
privately operated factory
with a capacity oh 258,000
nutrient tons of nitrogen
annually is scheduled to open
near Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu.
The factory also is equipped
to produce blended fertilizer
and diammoni um
phosphate.
Imported naphtha will
provide the factory with
necessary raw materials in
the first months, but naphtha
probably will come from a
nearby Indian Oil Company
refinery in the future.
Japanese and Swiss credits
and technology were in
volved in constructing the
factory.
British and Dutch finan
cing and credits were used in
building the new plant at
Mangalore, Karntuka.
Commercial production is
expected to begin late in 1974
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at the plant, which, has a
capacity of 340,000 tons of
urea annually. A factory
operated by the Indian
fertilizer cooperatives is
scheduled to open in Kandla
early in 1975 after several
years of delay.
The plant is to have a
capacity to produce 215,000
tons of nitrogen fertilizer
annually.
By 1980, India’s fertilizer
capacity is expected to be
about 5.3 million nutrient
tons about double the 1973-
74 level. Four large, new
factories at Korba,
Ramagundam, Talcher, and
Haldia are expected to turn
out about 1 million nutrient
tons in 1980.
Three of the plants will use
India’s abundant coal as a
feedstock, and the factory at
Haldia will use oil. The
greater use of coal by new
factories will lessen the
adverse impact of higher
petroleum prices.
The larger fertilizer
factory at Kandla, managed
by cooperatives, will use
India’s natural gas
resources to produce fer
tilizer. India also plans to use
natural gas imported from
Bangladesh for new fer
tilizer factories planned for
construction in West Bengal
in the late 1970’5. However,
naphtha the increasingly
expensive byproduct of
petroleum still will ac
count for most of the feed
stock used by India’s fer
tilizer factories during the
late 1970’5.
A slight increase in fer
tilizer imports is planned.
Striking gams in imports
during 1974-75 from the
USSR, Poland, and Bulgaria
through trade agreements
are expected to lore than
offset smaller arrivals from
Japan and Western Europe.
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Modest gains are expected in
imports from the United
States, Canada, Kuwait, and
Norway.
India’s total imports of
fertilizer are expected to
increase from 1.24 million
nutrient tons in 1973-74 to
about 1.38 million nutrient
tons in 1974-75, Higher prices
of fertilizer could push the
value of India’s fertilizer
imports above $7OO million in
1974-75 about double the
previous peak in 1967-88.
Canada was India’s major
supplier of fertilizer in 1973-
74 in terms of quantity, but
the predominance of lower
priced potash left Canadian
exports below those of the
United States and Japan in
value.
India’s imports of
Canadian potash increased
from 130,000 nutrient tons in
1972-73 to about 191,700
nutrient tons in 1973-74, when
small quantities of blended
fertilizer brought the total to
210,200 nutrient tons. This
quantity still was below
India’s imports of the record
248,000 nutrient tons im
ported from Canada in 1971-
72.
Fertilizer prices continued
to rise throughout first-half
1974. On June 1, the Indian
Government increased the
official retail price ceilings
on all nitrogen fertilizers and
other imported fertilizers by
55 to 125 percent. On May 31,
the price of naphtha used for
nitrogen fertilizer produc
tion was increased by about
93 percent.
All these price rises grew
out of the higher cost of in
puts in production of
nitrogen fertilizers, as well
as sharply higher prices of
imported fertilizers. Prices
of other domestically
produced fertilizers also are
bemg revised.
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Harold Probst, left, and Lee Landis
are the newest recipients of the
Distinguished Service plaque
awarded annually to Pennsylvania's
two top Dairy Herd Improvement
Association supervisors. Probst lives
in Bart while Landis is a Narvon
resident. The awards were presented
during the annual DHIA supervisor
conference held recently at Penn
State. Awards are presented on the
basis of time spent on the job, ef
ficiency and the recommendation of
Leadership
Applications Due
Rural
The deadline for recevmg
completed applications at
Penn State for the upcoming
statewide workshops offered
through the Cooperative
Extension Service’s Public
Affairs Leadership Program
is September 20, 1974.
The program provides a
unique educational ex
perience aimed at furthering
the development of
leadership for Penn
sylvania’s rural com
munities. This opportunity
for young men and women
between the ages of 25 and 40
is made possible through a
grant from the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation and con
tributions from businesses,
corporations, organizations,
and individuals throughout
Pennsylvania.
The Program consists of a
series of three- to four-day
workshops, totaling 30 days
of instruction, discussion and
field trips conducted over a
two-year period. The
workshops are held during
the winter months at two
regional locations in the
state and at Penn State’s
University Park Campus.
Program participants may
be mechanics, farmers, real
estate salesmen,
housewives, attorneys, or
bankers. They may be
nurses, public utility
supervisors, or planners.
Municipal officials and
citizens are encouraged to
apply. To qualify, each
candidate should be 25 to 40
the county DHIA . rd of directors.
Probst and Landis continued a
tradition which is now several years
old. Last year and in previous years,
both of the state's top DHIA
supervisors were from Lancaster
County. The tradition will probably
come to an end soon, though, because
each supervisor can receive the
award only once, and most of the
Lancaster County supervisors have
already received it.
years of age, have potential
for leadership and an in
terest in improving the
quality of life in rural
Pennsylvania. There are no
formal education
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