Short affidavit on behalf of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board (RSPCB) in terms of the National Green Tribunal order dated January 22, 2025. The application was registered suo motu by the NGT on the basis of a news item titled "Toxic kilns pollution Aravallis; wildlife and locals suffer" appearing …
Joe C Mathew / New Delhi July 09, 2008, 0:41 IST The Madhya Pradesh High Court has stayed the implementation of the central government's pricing policy on single super phosphate (SSP) fertilisers. The decision may affect the supply of SSP in the state as the industry is apprehensive of selling …
Warangal, July 8: The minister for agriculture, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, and the minister for major irrigation, Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah, had a tough time in pacifying the irate farmers, who took the ministers to task on the shortage of fertilisers and the irregular power supply. The ministers had an embarrassing …
The need to intensify agricultural production in the wake of the slow pace of growth in agricultural output realized in the recent past coupled with the rising demand for agricultural commodities; declining per capita availability of arable land, deteriorating position of availability of natural resources such as water; and the …
REUTERS World Bank President Robert B Zoellick holds up a bag of rice and a loaf of bread at a news conference in Washington The un acknowledges that in the past few decades governments and international financial institutions have not paid any attention to agriculture. Now the un, states and …
This paper estimates and compares the paid-out cost of cultivation of wheat in India, the most state-protected crop, during the input subsidy regime of the 1970s and 1980s and after its abolition in the 1990s, when economic reforms were initiated. The study uses the valuable time series information collected as …
CABINET DECISIONS DAP has been brought on a par with imports for calculating concessions. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved a new concession scheme for phosphatic and potassic (P&K;) fertilisers that would reduce subsidy bill by Rs 1,163 crore, besides providing incentives to the industry to increase …
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday approved the concession scheme of the Department of Fertiliser on de-controlled phosphatic and potassic fertilizers, which would reduce the subsidy bill by Rs. 1,163 crore, besides encouraging the industry to raise production. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, …
By G Manju Sainath, DH News Service, Bangalore: The violent and tragic twist to the shortage of fertilisers in the State claimed the lives of two farmers to police firing. As a possible answer to the fertiliser shortage, an agriculture scientist has suggested an effective substitute to chemical fertilisers. Presently, …
Joe C Mathew With the Union Cabinet expected to consider a new pricing policy for phosphatic fertilisers tomorrow, the three-month long uncertainty of the fertiliser companies over the maximum possible farm gate prices of phosphatic and potassic (P&K;) fertilisers may come to an end. Unlike other regulated sectors, price approval …
Anantapur, June 24: All-party committee leaders have decided to organise a Jail Bharo agitation and lay siege to the agriculture department joint director's office on June 26 in protest against the alleged negligence of the Congress government in solving farmers' problems. Speaking at a meeting organised at the CPI office …
By C. ANAND REDDY The fertiliser department will pay subsidy to companies only after ens-uring that the supplies reach district godowns. The responsibility or the role of the fertiliser ministry, so to say, ends there. This assumes significance as farmer suicides on account of shortage of fertilisers in states like …
Tiruchi Bureau "The basal fertilizer requirement for core delta districts is about 20,000 tonnes' TIRUCHI: Just as kuruvai cultivation is gaining momentum in delta districts, there have been widespread complaints of scarcity of fertilizers. Though the timely release of water has raised farmers' hopes, their biggest worry this season is …
C H Prashanth Reddy / Hyderabad June 19 The current fertiliser scarcity in the country and the mounting subsidy bill, which is expected to reach Rs 95,000 crore this year, can be partly solved by checking "injudicious usage" of the agricultural input and reducing imports by 20 per cent, feel …
The government today reduced prices of complex fertilisers by up to Rs 2,296 per tonne to encourage farmers to use them instead of regular urea and DAP so that soil fertility is maintained. The Union Cabinet had taken a decision in this regard on June 12. Complex fertilisers would now …
P. Sainath The fertilizer shortage might even be overcome just now. But the crisis won't go away. It and many more to come are built into both, what's going on in world capitalism
Meena Menon MUMBAI: Farmers' agitation against shortage of fertilizers in Maharashtra resulted in traffic blockade on the Nagpur-Hyderabad highway on Saturday morning. The angry farmers, led by the Shiv Sena's Ramtek MP Prakash Jadhav, agitated for over an hour and burnt tyres. The State is admittedly facing a 60 per …
In a bid to encourage the fertiliser industry to increase its production volumes, the government today extended the system of actual freight reimbursement to all types of fertilisers. Currently, only urea enjoys this concession. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), which met here today, also approved a uniform nutrient …
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday announced a new nutrient-based pricing policy for all subsidised fertilizers that would lead to lowering of prices of some varieties. It also approved a uniform freight subsidy for all fertilizers to ensure its adequate availability across the nation at a uniform price. It will …
WASHINGTON/WINNIPEG: It powered the Green Revolution and helped save millions from starvation, but now one of the most important tools on the farm is being priced out of reach for many of the world's growers. With food prices soaring and stocks thinning, the world is in need of bumper harvests …
