Context:
Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) is looking into the possibility of importing rock phosphate from Mauritania.
Rock Phosphate Organic Fertilizer
Rock Phosphate Fertilizer Components
- Calcium Phosphate
- Main component of rock phosphate, a type of apatite group. Its formula is Ca10(PO4)6(X)2.
- Environmentally friendly and natural source of phosphorus.
- Fluorapatite
- Common type, containing impurities like CO3, Na, and Mg.
- Effective fertilizer requires soil pH of 5.5 or higher and organic matter.
- Environmentally friendly and natural source of phosphorus.
Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.
- Chairman
- S. C. Mudgerikar
- Established
- 1978
- Headquarter
- Mumbai
- Indian public sector undertaking.
- Administratively controlled by Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers.
- Fourth largest government-owned fertilizer producer in India.
