BHUBANESWAR: Alleging large-scale misappropriation of funds in various schemes for farmers, the Kissan Khet Mazdoor Congress (KKMC), the farmers’ wing of the OPCC, on Saturday demanded a White Pape

Bhubaneswar: Rejecting Odisha government's allegation of inadequate supply of fertiliser to the state, the Centre today claimed to have provided 10 per cent more urea than the previous year.

IIM-Ahmedabad study favours continuation of fertilizer subsidy with better targeting and rationing

Even as the union government has estimated country's subsidy burden touching 2.4 per cent of the GDP this financial year, a recent study by management experts believe that removal of fertilizer subsidy would make farming unprofitable in many states and therefore its removal would not be in the interest of farming community.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today said paddy production is likely to be affected by an average 12 per cent during this kharif season due to inadequate and untimely fertiliser supply to farme

Even as the Centre refused to acknowledge the scarcity of fertilisers in Odisha, agricultural experts apprehended low yield of rice this kharif due to less use of soil nutrients.

Union power minister Veerappa Moily assured the Maharashtra government he would consider their plea on adequate allocation of gas for the Dabhol and Uran power projects.

As far as Dabhol project is concerned, he assured that he would seek Prime Minister’s intervention so that the gas supply would be supplied on the lines of fertiliser sector. State chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had said the dip in allocation from the D6 block of the Krishna-Godavari basin had led to the 1,960-Mw Dabhol project operating at only a third of total capacity, as also the state-run generation company’s 850 Mw Uran project.

Agartala: Tata Chemicals will set up a Rs 5,000 crore, gas-based urea plant in northern Tripura in association with State-owned ONGC and Tripura government, officials said here on Tuesday.

ONGC Chairman Sudhir Vasudeva held a meeting with Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in New Delhi on Monday and discussed the matter. “The ONGC CMD informed the Chief Minister that the Tata Chemicals has been chosen as the private partner to set up the fertilizer project in northern Tripura,” a State industry department official told reporters.

International water conservation and environmental protection specialists have called on the global community to step up the fight against water shortages that have been worsened by human activity