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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - State fertilizer maker PT Pusri gave theassurance Friday there will no increase in the upper retail pricesof subsidized fertilizers despite the government`s decision toraise fuel oil prices last week. It was the government which had the authority to raise the pricesof subsidized fertilizers, PT Pusri President Director Dadang HKodri said. "So, there will not be an increase in the prices of subsidizedfertilizers, except non-subsidized fertilizers," he said afterattending a workshop themed "Corporate Business Ethics". The government has set the upper retail prices of subsidizedurea-based fertilizers at Rp1,200 per kg or Rp60,000 per 50-kgsack, subsidized NPK fertilizers at Rp1,750 per kg or Rp35,000 per20-kg sack, subsidized ZA fertilizers at Rp1,050 per kg or Rp52,500per 50-kg sack and subsidized SP-36 fertilizers at Rp1,550 per kgor Rp77,500 per 50-kg sack. In budget year 2008, the government has allocated a subsidy of morethan Rp7.51 trillion for the procurement of 7 million tons ofsubsidized fertilizers, including 4.3 million tons of urea-basedfertilizers, 800,000 tons of SP-36 fertilizers, 700,000 tons of ZAfertilizers, 900,000 tons of NPK fertilizers and 345,000 tons oforganic fertilizers.