India, May 1 -- The Government on Thursday said domestic urea production has reached 37.49 lakh tonnes in March-April, nearly matching last year's levels despite the West Asia crisis, while securing 37 lakh tonnes of imported urea to meet the shortfall ahead of the Kharif season.

Total domestic fertiliser production stood at 62.37 lakh tonnes during March-April, while imports were at 15.39 lakh tonnes.

"The domestic production and import of fertilisers after the crisis have been strong as ever... approximately 78 lakh tonnes of fertilisers has been added to availability in the crisis situation," said Aparna S Sharma at the inter-ministerial briefing on developments in West Asia.

India produced 16.49 lakh tonnes of urea in March and 21 ...