Israel Chemicals to set 2 new fertiliser plants in India

Weeks after signing a deal to supply one million tonnes of potash to an Indian fertilizer company -- has that said it will set up two soluble fertilizer manufacturing plants in India.

"The decision to open two more plants stems from the success of the existing plant, the current shift in India's agriculture to modern and intensive methods and growing demand for soluble and complex fertilizers resulting from this shift," the company said in a statement.

ICL will set up the plants in collaboration with its local Indian partner, Zuari Industries.

Zuari Industries produces and distributes fertilizers and agricultural products throughout India. It partners with ICL in the speciality fertiliser initiative operating in India under the name Zuari Rotem Speciality Fertilizers.

Since March 2010, Zuari has been operating a soluble fertiliser plant with a production capacity of 32,000 tonnes a year.

"The decision to expand the cooperation with Zuari Industries is a further step in the implementation of our expansion strategy in speciality fertilisers abroad and in general - mainly in emerging markets where we see considerable growth potential", said Yossi Zidon, head of ICL Specialty Fertilizers.

"We believe that our leadership in delayed release and controlled release fertilisers alongside Zuari's distribution and service array will allow us to respond to the special needs of India's farmers through the new plants and to obtain a competitive edge," Zidon said.

Earlier this month ICL has signed a deal with an Indian company to supply one million tonnes of potash at $490 per tonne, a price about $120 per tonne more than the last year.

 

Source : Ahmedabad Mirror

A Gruesome Sixth Birthday

It was with much fanfare and lies that UN resolution 1701 was hailed as having ended the Islamic war against Israel in the summer of 2006. The ceasefire (hudna) that ended the Islamic war of aggression was a failure. It did not achieve its promised goal of disarming the Hezbollah guerrilla organization in Lebanon; nor did it make good on the fallacious promise to return the kidnapped Jewish soldiers.

Gilad Shalit rots in an Islamic torture chamber six long years.

 Gilad Shalit's sixth birthday in captivity marked By Jennifer Lipman, August 26, 2011

 

UN Security Council resolution 1701 ended the month-long 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which broke out after the latter abducted two Jewish soldiers in a cross-border raid.

Gilad Shalit spends his sixth birthday in captivity and the world stands silent. As they stood silent during the holocaust. Obama stands silent. Worse, he aids and abets the coming of the second holocaust.

Shame on those who stand silent. You think you are safe? You are next.
 

Gilad Shalit was 19 when he was captured

The British Jewish community has joined international efforts to highlight Gilad Shalit's continued captivity as the soldier marks his sixth birthday since he was kidnapped by Hamas.

Sergeant Shalit, who was 19 when he was captured in Israel by Hamas terrorists while he was guarding the border with Gaza, turns 25 on Sunday.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews used the anniversary to reiterate the demand for his "immediate and unconditional release" and to urge the Red Cross to increase its efforts to gain access to him.

The Board also highlighted the facts that Sergeant Shalit had consistently been denied contact with his family, visits from the Red Cross and independent medical care.

"His treatment well demonstrates the criminal and barbarous nature of Hamas and their callous disregard for the rules of normal human decency and international law," the Board said in a statement.

"We demand that the British government, along with its EU counterparts and the international community, apply substantial pressure to Hamas to end Gilad's plight to ensure that this birthday will be the last one which he spends in captivity."

The Board recently launched the "Faces for Gilad" awareness campaign and has written to other religious organisations appealing for support.

On Facebook, a group started by British Jew Elliot Jebreel to mark Sergeant Shalit's birthday has attracted nearly 1,000 supporters.

On the group, Mr Jebreel posted campaign information and wrote: "For the sake of his family, let's do all we can to bring him home".

In Israel, Sergeant Shalit's parents wrote an open letter to their son on his birthday. Noam and Aviva Shalit wrote: "'We know that every day that passes is another nightmarish day of impossible suffering, days and nights of suffocating endless loneliness.

"But we do not forget you."

Next Tuesday, the soldier will be named an honorary citizen of Pittsburgh, in a move to raise awareness and encourage solidarity.

Sergeant Shalit has now been missing for more than five years and 60 days.

 

Source : Atlas Shrugs