PT Pusri Distributes Subsidized Urea Fertilizer To Farmers

Palembang, S Sumatra, July 1 (Antara) - The Palembang-based state fertilizer company, PT Pusri, has distributed 576,822 tons of subsidized urea fertilizer to the farmers in nine provinces since January 2014, noted the company`s public relations manager, Sulfa Ghanie. "Since the past six months, the distribution of subsidized urea fertilizer to the farmers has run smoothly to ease their planting activities during this year," Sulfa stated here on Tuesday. According to Sulfa, the realization of fertilizer distribution was in line with the Definitive Plan of Farmers` Need (RDKK) in the provinces of South Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu, Lampung, Bangka Belitung, Banten, Jakarta, Central Java, and Yogyakarta. To meet the fertilizer demands of the farmers in those provinces for the coming months, Sulfa pointed out that the company will continue to increase the stocks at district levels. "We have sufficient stocks of the fertilizer at the farmers` production centers to meet their needs during the second phase of the planting season from April to September 2014," he added. Sulfa remarked that besides trying to meet the needs of the local farmers, the company has also exported some 70 thousand tons of urea fertilizer to several Asian countries. PT Pusri currently has four factories with a total production capacity of 2.262 million tons of urea per year. The company is now in the process of completing the construction of a new plant, which will boost its production capacity by 457.5 thousand tons of urea per year until 2015. By expanding into the foreign markets, the total production of 2.61 million tons of urea per year can be distributed to the market, and the company can increase its production capacity in future. Sulfa explained that the exports did not affect the domestic needs of the fertilizer.