Fertiliser Faultline
India’s fertiliser system is often discussed as an issue of subsidy, efficiency, or environmental overuse.
India’s fertiliser system is often discussed as an issue of subsidy, efficiency, or environmental overuse.
The Indian Micro-Fertilizers Manufacturers Association (IMMA) has written to the Union Government pressing for major policy changes ahead of the Union Budget 2026–27 to support the fertiliser sector’s competitiveness and ease of business.
Addressing a Kisan Sammelan at Dangawas near Merta town of Nagaur district, Tuesday afternoon, Chouhan also assured of making another law for addressing the cheating on availability and quality of fertilizers and manure.
In a fillip to the farming community and farming above all in the state, the state government today cleared in-principle the proposal for setting up a fertiliser factory in the state to make fertiliser cheaper.
The government has provided special fertiliser packages on Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) over and above the Nutrient-Based Subsidy (NBS) subsidy rates to ensure its smooth availability at affordable prices to farmers amid disruptions in supply due to geopolitical tensions, the Parliament was told on Tuesday.
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The Union Cabinet on Wednesday is learnt to have cleared fertiliser subsidy worth Rs 22,000 crore for the Rabi season, which runs from October 2023 till March 2024.
With India heavily dependent on imported fertilisers — to the extent that 30 per cent of its urea requirement is…
An ambitious scheme that aims to promote balanced use of fertilisers along with bio-fertilisers, called Promotion of Alternate Nutrients for Agriculture Management Yojana or PM PRANAM, is likely to be formally unveiled by the Centre at the end of this month.
Speaking at the launch of IFFCO's Nano Liquid DAP, Union Cooperatives Minister Amit Shah called the initiative a step towards this end.
