LAHORE, April 16: The government plans to set up two fertilizer production units in the Punjab and Sindh to overcome shortage of chemical fertilizers during kharif.

This was stated by National Fertilizer Marketing Ltd managing director Chaudhry Shaukat Hayat in a press release issued here on Wednesday.

He said the NFC was trying to meet the needs for agricultural inputs and supplying nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers throughout the country at a lower cost than the private sector.

Besides, it had established state of the art laboratories for free of cost analysis of soil and water. It had introduced most advanced and cheap technology to reclaim the saline water and this facility could help fight water shortage in kharif.