PALAKKAD: Subash Palekar, an advocate of natural farming popularly known as

Kurnool, Aug. 25: Farmers once again came on to the streets demanding supply of fertilisers. They alleged that the government had totally failed in the supply of fertilisers in adequate quantities. They staged a rasta roko in Kurnool and Kallur mandals protesting the lackadaisical attitude of the officials in the supply of fertilisers. They alleged that their crops are withering in the absence of fertilisers in time. The farmers who stormed the market yard in the morning, came out in large numbers by raising slogans.

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Domestic units will get nutrients at 85-95 per cent of world price
Production capacity target set at 40 million tonnes by 2012
CCEA leaves urea pricing for new units to Fertiliser Ministry

NEW DELHI: The Union Government on Friday approved a new policy to encourage investment in the urea sector to boost the stagnating production of the crop nutrient and reduce the country's import dependence. The approval was granted by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on the basis of the recommendations of the Abhijit Sen Committee.

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi August 02, 2008, 0:41 IST

A fertiliser supply crisis looms large over India as the Department of Fertilisers, which clears subsidy dues to fertiliser manufacturers, has almost exhausted its Budgetary allocation of Rs 30,986 crore for 2008-09.

The department's request for an additional Rs 66,453 crore as supplementary grant to meet the subsidy demand has not yet been accepted by the finance ministry, according to a department official.

M.J. PRABU

The villagers do not have a proper marketing channel to help them

Welcome trend: Farmers of Kothia village in Samastipur district, Bihar seen in front of the village entrance.

Karimnagar, July 30: Farmers of Nareddypalli in Ellanthakunta mandal in Karimnagar have been harnessing nature's wisdom to enhance output and control pests even as their comrades across the state are agitating against the shortage of fertilisers. Armed with bio-pesticides such as

Joe C Mathew / New Delhi July 31, 2008, 5:46 IST

Indian fertiliser companies are planning to invest around $5 billion (Rs 21,000 crore) in overseas joint ventures over the next three years. These companies are in negotiations for 19 such ventures, said government officials. These joint ventures are aimed at sourcing nitrogenous, phosphatic fertilisers and other raw materials.

as a part of a centrally-sponsored scheme non-recommended pesticides were being distributed to farmers in Rajasthan. Farmers were being forced to buy unnecessary pesticides as a part of the subsidy package under the National Horticulture Mission (nhm). These chemicals have not been approved for use in the crops that were being cultivated in the area. Pesticides like endosulfan,