National Fertilizers Limited, NFL, a PSU under the ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers registered a 71 percent growth in fertilizer sale last month. Despite the stringent restrictions in country in April due to COVID-19 lockdown, the company recorded fertilizer sale of 3.62 Lakh tonne last month compared to 2.12 Lakh tonne in the same period last year.

The PSU had to face lot of logistics hurdles due to lockdown but it left no stone unturned to make fertilizers available to farmers during this crucial period. Chairman and Managing Director of NFL, Manoj Mishra has appreciated the efforts of marketing team for achieving this highest-ever growth in sales in April 2020.

NFL produces urea at its five plants located at Nangal and Bathinda in Punjab, Panipat in Haryana and two plants at Vijaipur in Madhya Pradesh. Though the company has a production capacity of 35.68 Lakh tonne of urea. With all these products, the company has recorded highest-ever sale of 57 Lakh tonne in 2019-20, continuously for the fifth time in a row.

NFL employees’ have not only contributed one day’s salary of 88 Lakh rupees towards PM CARES Fund, but have also contributed an amount of 63.94 Lakh rupees under CSR towards PM CARES Fund for the same objective. With this, the  company has contributed total amount of 1.52 crore rupees towards PM CARES FUND.