UPL Limited, formerly United Phosphorus Limited, is an Indian multinational company that manufactures and markets agrochemicals, industrial chemicals, chemical intermediates, and specialty chemicals. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company is primarily engaged in the manufacture and marketing of conventional agrochemicals, seeds, and other agriculture-related products. It also manufactures fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators, rodenticides, industrial and specialty chemicals, and nutrifeeds. United Phosphorus Limited was established on 29 May 1969. The company changed its name to UPL Limited in October 2013. On 20 July 2018, UPL signed a US$4.2 billion agreement with Platform Specialty Products Corporation to acquire control of Arysta LifeScience Inc. The acquisition was completed in February 2019, making UPL the fifth largest generic agrochemicals company in the world after Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta and BASF. Wikipedia