Attock Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) on Wednesday stressed the need for converting fertiliser plants on coal to help mitigate gas loadshedding in the country.
If fertiliser sector is converted on coal ash, this will help reduce the gas problems, Former President ACCI, Tariq Mehmood said while addressing an energy conference. He said that China is catering 70 per cent of fertiliser demand by producing the commodity through coal ash, similarly, America is producing 15 per cent of fertiliser from coal ash, India 26 per cent and Australia 18 per cent. He was of the view that converting fertiliser plants on coal based fuel will also create two hundred thousand jobs, save foreign exchange wasted on import of urea, put an end to gas and CNG loadshedding and save by reducing fossil fuel imports.
