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Domestic players fi lling the market  Aquagro & Biostadt, which are that Indian specialty fertilisers remain Sustainable manufacturing and emerging trends
gap include: expanding organic soil conditioners; 10-12% costlier than Chinese ones.
 Coromandel International, which and in the specialty chemicals industry
expanded Gromor micronutrient  Camson Bio, which is producing The technology gaps in Fe-EDDHA &
production; and microbial biofertilisers. advanced CRFs require foreign colla- he specialty chemicals industry
 GSFC & Aries Argo – ramping up boration, for which 100% FDI is per- is currently undergoing a signi- NAMITESH ROY CHOUDHURY
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