Question

Which was the first fertilizer industry in India 1906?

• A. Trombay
• B. Gorakhpur
• C. Ranipet
• D. Nangal

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Ranipet

Fertilizers Industry

• The Indian fertilizers industry had a very humble beginning in 1906, when the first manufacturing unit of single super phosphate was set up in Ranipet near Chennai.

• India today is the third largest producer of nitrogenous fertilizers in the world, only behind China and USA.