TEHRAN Nov. 1 (Shana) � A senior official with Iran's National Petrochemical Company (NPC) said the country is expected to produce record-breaking amounts of chemical fertilizers by March 2016.
Ali-Mohammad Bossaqzadeh said the country's chemical fertilizer output will boost dramatically as new petrochemical feedstock is expected to be supplied to petrochemical plants from phases 12 and 15-21 of the massive South Pars gas field by the end of the current calendar year.
He said Iran's chemical fertilizer output grew 6% year-on-year during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year to March 20, 2016.

During the six months, Iran's export of chemical fertilizers grew some 12% year-on-year, he added.
Bossaqzadeh said the country's urea output is satisfactory and there is no domestic shortage for the item.

Iranian agricultural sector consumes 1.8 million metric tons to 2mt of urea annually.

By SHANA