Urea Fertilizer Production Up 1.8% Annually

The fertilizer industry's output is dominated by urea fertilizer. For the past five years (1989-1993), the production of urea fertilizer grew by 1.8% annually from 4.9 million tons in 1989 to 5.3 million tons in 1993.

In Indonesia, there are currently 5 unorganic fertilizer producers, including a joint venture among ASEAN countries, with a combined production capacity of 4.9 million tons of urea fertilizer, 1.2 million tons of TSP fertilizer, and 650,000 tons of ZA fertilizer per annum. ZA and TSP fertilizer is produced only by PT Petrokimia Gresik. Some of these unorgan