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Workers loading fertilizer on a cart and transporting it to the different centers of IFFCO in South India. Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, also known as IFFCO, is the world's largest fertiliser cooperative federation based in India which is registered as a Multistate Cooperative Society. IFFCO has 40,000 member cooperatives. IFFCO has been ranked 37 in top companies in India in 2011 by Fortune India 500 list. During the year 2008–09 IFFCO produced 7,168,000 tonnes of fertiliser material; registering overall capacity utilisation of 98 percent for nitrogenous and 53 per cent for phosphate fertiliser. It contributes 21.4% of country's total nitrogenous fertiliser production and 27% of total phosphate fertiliser production in the same period. Plant productivity during the year s