Lanco Infratech on Tuesday said it has terminated the coal supply agreement with Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers, with which it is fighting a legal battle, as the Australian company has not achi

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.

Thousands of tonnes of various types of substandard fertilisers were sold in Punjab - India’s food bowl - in recent years.

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.

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

TALCHER: The Union Cabinet has approved the revival package of the Talcher fertiliser plant at a meeting on Friday.

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.

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 subsidy on the plant nutrient to cushion it from price volatility. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs will take a final call on the matter shortly.

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