Key fertilizers used in India are urea, single super phosphate and diammonia phosphate.
Potassium fertilizers are not manufactured in India due to non-availability of the basic feedstock. With the shortage of domestic natural gas and increase in prices of naptha and fuel, imported LNG is emerging as an attractive option for urea manufacturers. It is important to reduce the duty in LNG for use in manufacture of fertilizer and bring it at par with naptha and fuel oil. However it would be freely importable from 1st April 2001.