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Rock phosphate is utilized as raw material for manufacturing phosphate fertilizers. Over 90% of the requirement of the country is met through trading in. Native supply comes from Vishakapatnam [Andhra Pradesh], Singhbhum [Jharkhand] and Jhamar Kotra [Rajasthan] regions. Naphtha, sculpture, rock phosphate, gypsum, smelter gases are significant raw materials that are needed to manufacture chemical fertilizers. Naphtha is the most significant raw material that is required to produce nitrogenous fertilizers. Previously, the majority of naphtha was traded in from overseas, however now most of the necessity is made up natively. It is the supply of naphtha that has affected the place of fertilizer units in close proximity to the oil refineries and ports.

Coke and coke-oven gas are some of the other significant feedstock's that are utilized by the fertilizer industry. Coal-based fertilizer units are present in Talcher, Korba and Ramagundem. In the same way, plants at Bhilai, Rourkela, and Durgapur are based on coke-oven gas. Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd in Andhra Pradesh, Zuari Industries Ltd., (ZIL) in Goa, Cyanides & Chemicals Ltd., in Gujarat, National Fertilizers Ltd. (NFL), in Haryana, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(RCFL) in Maharashtra, Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd., in Rajasthan, Duncans Industries Ltd., in Uttar Pradesh are some of the well-known straight nitrogenous fertilizer plants in India.

S.No.	State	Name of the Plant	Location	Product
1	Andhra Pradesh	Nagarjuna Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd.,	Kakinada	Urea
		Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.,	Visakhapatnam	AS
2	Assam	Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corpn. Ltd.(BVFCL),	Namrup - II	Urea
		Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corpn. Ltd.(BVFCL),	Namrup - III	Urea
3	Jharkhand	SAIL,	Bokaro	AS
4	Goa	Zuari Industries Ltd., (ZIL)	Zuari Nagar	Urea
5	Gujarat	Cyanides & Chemicals Ltd.	Surat	AS
		Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Co.Ltd. (GNFC)	Bharuch	Urea, CAN
		Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd. (GSFC),	Vadodara	Urea, AS
		GSFC-Polymer Unit,	Vadodara	AS
		Indian Farmers Fertilizer Coop. Ltd. (IFFCO)	Kalol	Urea
		Krishak Bharti Coop. Ltd., (KRIBHCO) (2 plants)	Hazira	Urea
6	Haryana	National Fertilizers Ltd. (NFL),	Panipat	Urea
7	Karnataka	Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (MCFL)	Mangalore	Urea
8	Kerala	Fertilizers & Chemicals Travancore Ltd.(FACT)	Udyogamandal	AS
		FACT,	Cochin - 1	Urea
9	Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh	SAIL,	Bhilai	AS
		NFL,	Vijaipur	Urea
10	Maharashtra	Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.(RCFL),	Trombay V	Urea
		RCFL, (2 Plants)	Thal Vaishet	Urea
11	Orissa	SAIL (Fert. Plant)	Rourkela	CAN
		SAIL,	Rourkela	AS
12	Punjab	NFL,	Nangal (I & II)	CAN, Urea
		NFL,	Bhatinda	Urea
13	Rajasthan	Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd.,	Gadepan, Kota	Urea
		Shriram Fertilisers & Chemicals (SFC)	Kota	Urea
14	Tamil Nadu	Madras Fertilisers Ltd. (MFL)	Manali	Urea
		Southern Petrochemical Industries Corpn. Ltd. (SPIC)	Tuticorin	Urea
		Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd.,	Tuticorin	ACI
15	Uttar Pradesh	Duncans Industries Ltd.,	Panki	Urea
		IFFCO,	Aonla	Urea
		IFFCO,	Phulpur	Urea
		Indo Gulf Corpn., (A unit of Aditya Birla Nuvo Ltd.)	Jagdishpur	Urea
		KRIBHCO Shyam Ferts. Ltd.,	Shahjahanpur	Urea
		Tata Chemicals Ltd.	Babrala	Urea
16	West Bengal	IISCO,	Burnpur-Kulti	AS
		SAIL,	Durgapur	AS