(VEN) - According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, domestic production of various fertilizers increased in the first 10 months of this year. Specifically, urea fertilizer output reached 1,816,700 tonnes, an increase of eight percent from a year ago, and NPK fertilizer 2,006,800 tonnes, an increase of 0.1 percent. The Vietnam National Chemical Group in particular produced 454,300 tonnes of urea fertilizer, an increase of 22.3 percent, 1,501,000 tonnes of NPK fertilizer, an increase of 0.8 percent, and 225,300 tonnes of DAP fertilizer, an increase of 22.5 percent.