Even as they deploy ministers, MLAs to control situation, Centre, states deny shortage. Experts blame lack of planning, slow increase in fertiliser subsidies for crisis in sowing season.
We rely on chemical fertilisers to grow our food, which are responsible for both greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural pollution, and are largely unaffordable for smallholder farmers.
India is a leading importer of fertilisers for its huge agriculture sector, which employs about half of its 1.4 billion people and accounts for nearly 15% of the $3 trillion economy.
Galvanising Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan scheme was launched in April 2018, but was beset by implementation gaps with ‘stakeholder ministries working in silos’.
By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will not need to buy fertiliser from the spot markets to meet local demand in the summer sown crop season starting from April, the country's fertilisers
Under new scheme, both public & private sector companies will be required to sell subsidised fertilisers under a single brand name, in uniform bags displaying scheme branding.
India, one of the top 4 buyers of urea, has provisioned 287 lakh metric tonnes for next 7 months. This comes as Russia's war on Ukraine has caused shortage of fertlisers.
The measures have been imposed to insulate the domestic market from higher international prices. But they could reduce incentives for producers to expand production in the long run.
Revenue loss from export crops like tea played a big part in Sri Lanka's rapid economic decline. For descendants of Tamil-bonded labourers, life is more difficult now.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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