Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has found an indigenous way to end India’s Urea import. While speaking at a gathering of young innovators at the Mayor Innovation Awards function of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation on Sunday, Gadkari proposed that India should make urea from urine.
Talking about importance of innovation, he gave the example of how bio-fuels can be extracted from natural waste. Even human urine can be useful for making a bio-fuel and it can also yield ammonium sulfate and nitrogen, he said.
“If it is done, India will not need to import fertiliser,” said Gadkari, adding that, “I have asked for storage of urine at airports. We import urea, but if we start storing urine of entire country then we will not need to import urea, so much potential it has, and nothing will be wasted.”
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Presenting his idea, Gadkari himself admitted that MNCs and government have shown little interest in his “fantastic ideas”.
“Other people do not cooperate with me because all my ideas are fantastic,” the minister, said adding “Even the (municipal) corporation will not help, because in government, people are trained to be like (blinkered) bulls who walk in the rut, not looking here and there.”
Explaining the ‘science’ behind it Gadkari had said that urine had abundant urea and nitrogen compounds, which nourished plants, adding that urine could emerge as a cheap alternative to fertilizer.
Some years ago, Gadkari had created a flutter by saying that he stored his own urine and used it as fertiliser for the garden at his official bungalow in Delhi.
