Pupuk Kuj ang upholds commitment to promote food security

Indonesia's policy on fertiliser subsidy lays the groundwork for self-sufficiency in rice production and major staple crops. Promoting the country's food security programme, state fertiliser producer Pupuk Kujang (PK) supports the agricultural and petrochemical industries in West Java, Indonesia's national granary.

"We seek to improve the quality and quantity of West Java's crops production by ensuring an adequate supply of fertilisers," says president Bambang Tjahjono.

A subsidiary of state-owned enterprise Pupuk Indonesia, PK operates two fertiliser plants with a combined annual production capacity of 1.14 million tonnes of urea and 660,000 tonnes of ammonia. For nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (NPK) fertilisers, the company runs two facilities with a yearly capacity of 300,000 tonnes. PK provides a minimum of 20,000 tonnes of organic fertiliser annually through production partnerships with small- and medium-scale organic fertiliser producers in West Java.

Responding to the government's initiative to revitalise the fertiliser industry, PK will construct a new plant going on stream in 2017, with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes.

To meet the domestic demand for compound fertilisers, the company set up another NPK plant in April this year, with an additional capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year.

Sustaining growth through innovation, PK diversified into other products to include Jeranti fertiliser for citrus plantations in West Java. It also developed its own liquid-based foliar fertiliser and biofertiliser in collaboration with American company BiOWiSH Technologies.