This report evaluates emission mitigation options to achieve net-zero carbon emissions through marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves for the existing plants in the fertiliser industry. MAC curves were developed for three major fertilisers produced in India, which account for 85 per cent of total fertiliser production—urea, di-ammonium phosphate (DAP), and …
While more than two dozen districts were flood affected the state government has only added woes to the farmers as acute shortage of fertiliser has come up across the state. The state BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said on Thursday that flood has made the lives of hell of the …
Thousands of tonnes of various types of substandard fertilisers were sold in Punjab - India’s food bowl - in recent years. By the time “stop sale” orders were issued - in some cases, a year later - these proved meaningless as by that time the dealers had already sold the …
In the din of Anna Hazare’s fast, glaring cases of irregularities smacking of alleged corruption involving thousands of crores of rupees in the fertiliser sector have gone unnoticed. A “performance audit” of the fertiliser subsidy (Department of Fertilisers (DoF), Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers) by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of …
Atmospheric methane (CH4) increased through much of the twentieth century, but this trend gradually weakened until a stable state was temporarily reached around the turn of the millennium, after which levels increased once more. The reasons for the slowdown are incompletely understood, with past work identifying changes in fossil fuel, …
A Group of Ministers (GoM) has cleared a 10 per cent increase in the maximum retail price of urea along with bringing the fertiliser under the Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) regime. The approval, which will have to be endorsed by the Union Cabinet, would result in the MRP of urea …
An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) under Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has cleared the proposal to free the prices of urea and bring it under the Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) policy. The government has decided to raise urea prices by 10 per cent in the first year of the policy, …
Over 56 per cent of Indian farmers are not aware about the maximum retail prices (MRP) of fertilisers they buy, while 45 per cent fork out more than the MRP and 59 per cent face problems in getting their season's full requirement in time. These are the startling findings of …
New Delhi A group of ministers (GoM) led by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday recommended bringing urea, a commonly used fertiliser, under the nutrient-based policy, raise its price by 10% immediately and partially decontrol the commodity from the next fiscal. Even after the price decontrol, there will be some …
The Supreme Court on Friday said it did not have any objection to conditional export of “ready, available” stock of banned pesticide endosulfan but refused to permit further production. “We have no objection to exports unless some conditions are met, but it should only be to the extent of stocks …
TALCHER: The Union Cabinet has approved the revival package of the Talcher fertiliser plant at a meeting on Friday. According to sources, the urea plant will be revived jointly by Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers (RCF), Gas Authority of India Limited and Coal India Limited. The projected cost of Talcher plant …
New Delhi: In a severe criticism of the government’s massive fertilizer subsidy bill, the CAG said the huge expenditure has neither increased domestic production of fertilizers, nor made available high-quality product to Indian farmers. The government spent Rs 2,70,648 crore on fertilizer subsidy between 2003 and 2010, but fertilizer production …
Earth’s climate is warming as a result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuel combustion. Anthropogenic emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases, such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone-depleting substances (largely from sources other than fossil fuels), also contribute significantly to warming. Some non-CO2 greenhouse …
Ban imposed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) government on mining of raw phosphate has created fear of phosphate fertilisers' shortage in the country, which will increase economic burden on the growers who are already facing severe hardships due to day-by-day increasing prices of the agricultural inputs. This was claimed by …
This report analyzes the political economy of two important fields of agricultural policy in India: fertilizer supply and electricity supply for groundwater irrigation. These inputs are essential to food production and agricultural development, which have been core areas of concern for policymakers in India since Independence. Following the food shortages …
DHENKANAL: The non-availability of fertilisers continues to plague the agriculture zones of the district with paddy being the worst affected. For nearly 1.8 lakh farmers, the district has so far received only 416 metric tonnes fertilisers against the required 1,000 MT leading to the supply-demand gap in the market. Besides, …
In this paper we describe a strategy for sustained release of nitrogen into the soil. Specifically, ureamodified hydroxyapatite nanoparticles were encapsulated under pressure into cavities of the soft wood of Gliricidia sepium. Nitrogen release of the nanofertilizer composition was studied using soil from three elevations in Sri Lanka (pH 4.2, …
A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 3 wet and dry seasons of 2003-06 in rice-wheat cropping system. In this experiment different treatments comprising organic amendments such as blue green algae, vermicompost and farm yard manure applied alone or in …
During the late 1950s and early 1960s food deficits India has been requiring importation of 3 to 4 million tons of grain per year. However because of bad monsoons in 1965 and 1966, imports exploded unpwardly to 10 million tons, and India was in dire straits. It was during this …
There is a need to break yield barriers through multidimensional approch to achieve food security on a sustainable basis for the people of this country. Cooperatives can play an important role in this direction due to their proximity to farmers. The Indian Farmers' Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), since over the …
