Two Week RFCL Shutdown Threatens Urea Supply Amid Drought
Karimnagar: In the midst of the ongoing drought, a two -week closure at Ramundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited’s urea facility threatens to injure fertilizer materials and endanger the harvest of this season.
RFCL officials reported that a leak in ammonia supply elbow pipes forced to close for two weeks. Normally producing 3,500-4,000 tons of urea a day, the facility faces an estimated 50,000 tons of production loss after repair trials fail.
Closing seven states, TaLangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh will hit. Tahangana’s Karimnagar, Warangal, Adilabad, Nizamabad and Mahbubnagar regions will be largely dependent on the RFCL. The state was planned for 60,000 tons this month, but only took 30,800 tons.
RFCL Director B. Ajay Kumar said that the annual capacity of the facility is 1.3 million tons to Deccan Chronicle. Madhya Pradesh center under guidelines.
Kumar added that TaLangana’s almost one million tons of buffer stock should prevent an acute problem. A team of experts works at any time of the day to repair the leak and maintain production rapidly.
In the meantime, the central government senior officials mobilized the RFCL for unexpected situation planning and promised to send additional experts if necessary. Peddapalli Deputy Gaddam Vamshi Krishna, who recently visited the facility and made sure that production is normal, urged his ministers not to reduce the supply of TaLangana; Two days after his visit, the leak occurred and stopped the supply.
