Jamuna Fertilizer stops production
Urea production at Jamuna Fertilizer Company Ltd (JFCL) at Tarakandi in Sarishabari upazila was suspended early yesterday as the authorities concerned stopped supply of natural gas to JFCL.
Suspension of fertilizer production at JFCL will continue for three months during the Boro season.
The decision to halt gas supply to JFCL was made to ensure the gas supply to gas-fuelled power plants across the country so that they can go for sufficient power generation to keep the power-run irrigation pumps running during the current Boro season, said Mahbuba Sultana, managing director of JFCL.
Directed by Petrobangla, Titas Gas and Transmission Company served a notice to JFCL on Wednesday that said gas supply to JFCL would remain stopped during this season, she said.
“Following the decision made by the transmission company, we stopped urea production at 1:15am,” said Sultana.
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