Abstract The Indian Fertiliser Industry entered into the hundredth year of its existence in the
year 2006. The industry had a very humble beginning in 1906, when the manufacturing unit
of Single Super Phosphate (SSP) was set up in Ranipet near Chennai with annual capacity
of 600 MT. The Fertiliser&Chemicals Travancore of India Ltd.(FACT) at Cochin in Kerala and
the Fertiliser Corporation of India (FCI) in Sindri in Bihar were the first large sized fertiliser
plants set up in forties and fifties with a view to establish an industrial base to achieve self …