<span style="color: #000000;">HIL (India) Limited, a Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers has supplied 20.60 Metric tonne of DDT 75 per cent WP to South Africa for their Malaria control program yesterday.</span><span style="color: #500050;"><br />''<br />''<span style="color: #000000;">The Department of Health, South Africa will be utilising DDT in three provinces adjoining Mozambique. The region is highly affected with Malaria and it has reported maximum morbidity due to the disease in recent years. Malaria continues to be one of the major public health hazards globally.</span><br />''<br />''</span><span style="color: #000000;">HIL (India)  is the sole manufacturer of DDT globally. The company was incorporated in the year 1954 to manufacture and supply DDT to the Government of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for malaria control programme. In the year 2019-20, the product was supplied to 20 States in the country. The Company is also exporting the product to many African countries.</span><span style="color: #500050;"><br />''<br />''<span style="color: #000000;">HIL India Limited is further in the process of supplying 128 tonnes DDT 75 per cent WP to Zimbabwe and 113 tonnes to Zambia in the current financial year. The company has recently exported 25 tonnes of Malathion Technical 95 per cent to Iran under Government-to-Government initiative for the Locust Control Programme and also exported 32 tonne Agrochemical-fungicide to Latin American region.</span></span><br />