 With around 19% market share in Urea and around 29% market share in complex fertilisers (P2O5 terms) IFFCO is India's largest fertiliser manufacturer.The cooperative was ranked 66th on the Fortune India 500 list of India's biggest corporations as of 2017  with a net worth of $2.3 billion as on March, 2018.1960s

The food crisis of the early '60s mobilised India's farmers and the founding fathers of a `young' India to look for longer-term solutions.