HIL (India) limited, a PSU under Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals is making all efforts to ensure adequate supply of insecticides to the farmer community in India and at the same time eying big export orders of DDT from African countries.

 

HIL has written a letter to 10 southern African Development Community (SADC) for supply of DDT in view of a warning issued by the World Health Organisation about an increase in Malaria cases in the region in coming months.

 

During the lockdown period (till 7th May), HIL produced 120.4 MT DDT Technical, 226 MT DDT 50 percent WDP, 85 MT Malathion Technical, 16.38 MT Hilgold and 27.66 MT formulations to help Indian farming community. DDT 50 percent WDP is dispatched to Odisha (30 MT) as per NVBDCP supply order. Apart from this, Malathion Technical production is also continuing for the locust control programme. The company continues to supply Malathion Technical to the Ministry of Agriculture locust control programme in Rajasthan and Gujarat. 

 

Manufacturing units of HIL are running by maintaining social distancing and with minimum manpower as per standard operating procedure (SOP). Sanitization levels in all these units have increased. All workplace, plants, trucks and buses entering factories are also being sanitized frequently.