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 …
Fertiliser ministry opposes plans on hiking urea prices Amendments to the urea investment policy of 2008 are likely to be delayed further, as the department of fertilisers (DoF) has formally opposed the move to raise urea prices. The price of this fertilizer has a direct bearing on the investment policy …
Farmers in the state will be able to talk directly to the Cooperative Minister over the issues of seeds and fertilisers. Cooperative Minister Gaurishankar Bisen, while giving instructions to officers to ensure storage of adequate quantities of seeds and fertilisers for the ensuing kharif crops, also instructed to display the …
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Government, which always stands by the farmers in their difficult times, has provided a total loan of ` one thousand 717 crore to the farmers at the rate of one percent for their agricultural activities in this Kharif season. Interestingly, more than one hundred crore as loans …
The residents of Jaffna and its vicinities could be adversely impacted due to the high volumes of pesticides and fertilisers used by the agricultural sector in the area, the Institute of Fundamental Studies (IFS) warned. IFS Researcher Dr. Meththika Vithanage speaking to Daily Mirror yesterday said various chemical compounds contained …
Aiming to promote organic farming, the government has partially relaxed restrictions on exports of sugar, pulses and edible oils, produced without using chemical fertiliser and pesticides. The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has allowed exports of organic cooking oil, sugar and pulses upto 10,000 tonnes each per annum.
One of the priorities that have emerged in recent years is the need to strengthen India’s social safety net and improve the delivery mechanisms of poverty alleviation programs. This is to ensure that vulnerable groups can withstand unforeseen shocks to income and continue to access basic goods and services at …
This paper estimates instability for the aggregate of the crop sector as well as for the sub-sectors and important commodities at the national and state level. Besides instability analysis, the study has also prepared estimates of the value of crop output for 551 rural districts in the country by using …
In the early 1990s, hospitals in Sri Lanka’s North Central Province, the main agricultural region of the country, started reporting an unusually high incidence of chronic renal failure. About 5,000 persons reported ill in 1993. By 2009, the disease assumed epidemic proportions. That year over 9,000 patients from North Central …
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said that the government had taken the important decision to provide fertiliser subsidy for all food crops under the Mahinda Chinthana Idiri Dekma. Minister Rajapaksa was addressing tea and rubber smallholders, large scale tea and rubber growers and farmers on Thursday. He said that the …
Factors such as low fertiliser use, acidic soil, huge soil loss because of lack of water absorption capacity, monoculture and continuance with traditional paddy cultivation in jhums through shifting cultivation are putting hurdles in the growth of agriculture in the northeastern states, country
Initiate measures to restore biodiversity: panel Panchayats asked to maintain seed banks Thrissur: The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has called for banning farming with chemical fertilizers in the ecologically-sensitive areas in the Western Ghats. The WGEEP, which is holding a three-day meeting here, said organic farming should be …
The government on Thursday raised the benchmark prices at which fertiliser companies and designated traders can import phosphatic and potash fertilisers with subsidy support so that farmers have uninterrupted supply of plant nutrients in the coming monsoon season despite higher global prices. The subsidy given to companies for making the …
The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave a nod to increasing the benchmark prices of di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) and muriate of potash (MoP) to ensure adequate availability during the upcoming kharif sowing season. The benchmark price will be increased to $612 per tonne for DAP and $420 per tonne for MoP …
With the unrest in Middle East expected to raise fertiliser prices for the kharif crop, the Cabinet, scheduled to meet on Thursday, is likely to take a decision for upward revision in the nutrient based subsidy (NBS) rates of phosphatic and potassic fertilizers under the NBS regime that came into …
Chemical fertilisers are key element of modern technology and have played an important role in agricultural productivity growth in India. However, the demand-supply gap of fertilisers in India has increased in recent times, thereby leading to increased dependency on imports. Indian imports, which were about 2 million tonnes in early …
Environment and Wildlife minister meets Dikshit, Hooda to discuss ways to keep river healthy Excessive algae in the Yamuna brought Union Minister for Environment and Wildlife Jairam Ramesh
