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India's urea demand set to rise: David Hayes talks to the Fertilizer Association of India about the current situation for the urea industry in the country and the prospects for the future.(India)

India is forecasting a 25% increase in urea consumption over the next five years, reversing the recent trend of declining urea use since the late 1990s. The forecast increase in urea demand assumes that there will be an improvement in recently erratic weather conditions and that the supply of natural gas feedstock used in urea production will expand as India begins to develop newly discovered indigenous gas reserves and starts to import LNG.

The government expects urea consumption to grow by about 1.0m t/a for the next five years after erratic rainfall caused total urea use to decline by about 10% to 18.5m t/a since the late 1990s.

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