Union Minister Nitin Gadkari | Photo Credit: Indiatimes

Nagpur: In order to minimize imports of urea into India, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has recommended the setting up of urine banks in every tehsil and taluka. Farmers will be given the urea produced in these urine banks which they can then use as fertilizers.

"Human urine contains a lot of nitrogen... We already have organic substitutes for phosphorous and potassium,” Gadkari told TOI. He stated that he was in conversation with Swedish scientists to make this a reality.

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10-litre cans will be arranged for farmers in villages to take the urine to the urine banks. He further told TOI that initial tests will be carried out at a lab in Dhapewada village near Nagpur.