Pusri Exports 84 Thousand Tons Of fertilizer

Palembang, S Sumatra, April 19 (Antara) - State-owned fertilizer company PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja (Pusri) has up to April this year exported 84,233 tons of fertilizer to a number of countries in Asia, one of its managers said. "Pusri will continue to expand its export market in anticipation of its increasing production following the construction of its new factory," Pusri Manager for Public Relations Sulfa Ganie said here on Friday. He said that with four factories, Pusri had a production capacity of 2.262 million tons of urea fertilizer production per annum. The company was able to meet the need for fertilizer of farmers and for exports. The construction of a new factory which is being carried out in the framework of revitalizing the fertilizer company will add 457,500 tons to its total production so that it would reach 2.61 million tons in 2015. The new factory is Pusri II-B. Pusri II-B with the new technology would be more efficient in gas consumption using 31.49 MMBTU of gas and 21.18 MMBTU of ammonia for the production of a ton of urea fertilizer. It will also be environmentally friendlier. The renovation is expected to be completed in 34 months, therefore, it will start operation in December 2015 if construction runs as scheduled, Sulfa Ghani said Sulfar said recently that Pusri, which is based in Palembang, South Sumatra, has prepared 155,400 tons of urea fertilizer stock in South Sumatra`s agricultural production centers. "The fertilizer stock is prepared to meet the need for the commodity of farmers in South Sumatra and in eight other provinces in Indonesia," he said. Sulfa said the company continued to make efforts to prepare fertilizer stock for nine provinces, namely South Sumatra, Lampung, Jambi, Bengkulu, Bangka Belitung, Central Java, Banten, Jakarta, and Yogyakata. He said that his company guaranteed fertilizer stock supply for farmers in the nine provinces. Farmers, therefore, need not worry about fertilizer scarcities in the planting seasons this year. The company spokesman said that so far his company had faced no difficulties in fertilizer production and distribution. He said that the production activities of the four factories owned by PT Pupuk Sriwidjaja were running well even though the development of one of its factories, newly revitalized Pustri II-B factory was still undergoing. The ground breaking ceremony for the development of Pusri II-B took place last month, marking the start of work for the revitalization, he said.