India has secured 2.5 million tons of fertilizers from Morocco’s OCP Group under long‑term supply agreements aimed at stabilizing its agricultural input needs for the 2025–2026 farming season, an Indian minister said.
Speaking to MPs, Indian chemicals and fertilizers minister Jagat Prakash Nadda confirmed that New Delhi has locked in 8.6 million tons of fertilizers through overseas partnerships, including 3.1 million tons from Saudi Arabia, 3 million tons from Russia, and 2.5 million tons from Morocco via OCP, in a bid to reassure lawmakers over national fertilizer availability for the upcoming Rabi 2025‑2026 season.
The move comes as India faces a decline in shipments of diammonium phosphate (DAP) from China, which fell from 2.2 million tons in 2023–2024 to 850,000 tons in 2024–2025, after Beijing progressively restricted and eventually halted its exports.
To offset the supply gap, India expanded partnerships with key producers, with Morocco emerging as a central supplier. In early 2025, OCP Nutricrops signed agreements with six Indian companies for 2.5 million tons of DAP and TSP, covering 22% of India’s demand over the year’s first ten months.
OCP already holds a significant footprint in India, including a 28% stake in Paradeep Phosphates and a joint venture with Chambal Fertilizers and Tata Chemicals, reinforcing its position as a structural pillar of India’s food‑security strategy at a moment of shifting global supply chains.
New Delhi has also stepped up domestic fertilizer production, rising from 16 million tons in 2014–2015 to 21.1 million tons in 2024–2025, helped by an expanded subsidy regime and continued support for freight subsidies on single superphosphate.
