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New chapter of development Nation

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GORAKHPUR PRELUDE TO SELF-SUSTAINING
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FACTORY: AGRICULTURE
The government has set an example by renovating and because of buying fertilizers at high prices. On the
making the Gorakhpur fertilizer factory in Purvanchal demand of the people to restart the fertilizer .To
operational in just five years. The plant has been closed for change this gloomy atmosphere, in 2016, Prime
more than 30 years. It will benefit 10 crore small farmers Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone
besides making headway towards making the country for the revival of this fertilizer factory. Now that
self-dependent in the field of urea. dream of the land of Gorakhpur has come true.

armers are the pride of the country. Agricultural
development and farmers' welfare have always FERTILIZER FACTORY OPENS
Fbeen the topmost priorities in the policies and
functioning of the Government. Over the years, the FLOODGATE OF DEVELOPMENT
government has taken many initiatives to improve
the condition of the farmers. Seeds, crop insurance, By realizing the aspirations of the farmers of
markets and savings are some of the areas wherein Purvanchal and bridging the demand-supply gap
the government has done a lot of work. Prosperity of of urea, the farmers will have easy availability of
farmers has been ensured through various measures chemical fertilizers.
like good quality seeds, neem coated urea, soil The factory built at a cost of about Rs.8600
health card, micro irrigation, and increase in fertilizer crore will help it to become self-sufficient in
subsidy. Self-reliance of the country is important in urea production. Together with the factory, 20
increasing the production and income of the farmers. thousand new employment opportunities will be
Keeping this in mind, the Central Government paid created.
special attention to the renovation and capacity People will be readied for employment through
enhancement of the closed fertilizer factories. skill training. Local traditional industries will
As part of this, in 2016, a major decision was taken be encouraged. Reduction in import of urea
to re-start three closed fertilizer plants in Gorakhpur, will result in saving in foreign exchange. Less
Barauni and Sindri located in the eastern states of the transportation of urea from the west-central
country. The farmers were troubled for a long time regions will reduce the pressure on rail and road
due to the closed factories, so many jobs were lost. infrastructure.
Other businesses running due to factories also went Re- commissioning of the 30 plants, will boost overall
on shrinking. It led to an employment crisis besides economic development in the region.
affecting supply of manure. There was hoarding and
3850 2200
black marketing of urea. Farmers were hit financially

metric tonnes of urea will be metric tonnes of liquid
produced per day. ammonia will be produced.

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