Nepal Explores Green Urea Production Using Hydroelectricity and Cement Industry Byproducts

Kathmandu. Every year, as soon as the farming season begins in Nepal, there is a severe shortage of chemical fertilizers. The fate of farmers wandering without fertilizer has been the same for years. However, the possibility of producing chemical fertilizer (urea) domestically by using the country's abundant but wasted hydroelectricity and carbon dioxide emitted from the cement industry is now being taken seriously.

Biraj Singh Thapa, Associate Professor at Kathmandu University and Head of Green Hydrogen Lab, has been researching the development and feasibility of hydrogen technology in Nepal for a long time. Recently, this debate has come to the forefront after the government included the topic of green ammonia and chemical fertilizer factories in its policy and program.