The Indian fertilizer industry has emerged as the fourth largest producer of fertilizers in the world after China, USA, Russia. Nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers are produced indigenously, while requests for potassic fertilizers are met through imports.
India has achieved near self-sufficiency in the inputs for the production of nitrogenous fertilizers, but for the production of phosphatic fertilizers, the country continues to rely on imports of raw materials (rock phosphate and sulphur and for intermediates such as phosphoric acid).
