BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 15. Urea (nitrogen fertilizers) output at the SOCAR Carbamide plant in Sumgayit from January through May 2024 amounted to 249,100 tons, which is 64.4 percent more than the same period of 2023, Trend reports.
According to the State Statistics Committee, 39,700 tons of urea were stored in SOCAR Carbamide's warehouses as of June 1.
However, this enterprise, which has been operating in Azerbaijan for a little over five years, produced 454,000 tons of urea in 2023, of which 148,800 tons were purchased by EU countries.
Over the entire period of activity, this enterprise produced more than 2 million tons of nitrogen fertilizers (carbomide, or "urea"), of which more than 85 percent was exported.
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