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New Delhi :The performance of Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Limited (FACT), a PSU under the Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, has been quite encouraging on the production and marketing front during first five months of current financial year. FACT’s Second muriate of potash (MOP) shipment (27,000 MT) for the kharif season reached Tuticorin Port on August 21, 2020, and unloading is in progress.
MOP along with FACT’s prime product Factamfos ( NP 20:20:013) is a fertiliser combination preferred by the farmers of South India. Earlier, the company had imported one MoP & one NPK complex parcels during June – July. It is understood that Company is optimising its operations taking adequate safeguards against COVID pandemic. With reasonably good monsoon encouraging agriculture, the company is taking steps to meet the demand of farmers during the season, according to a PIB release.