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Will govt put top fertilizer companies on the block next year?
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Will govt put top fertilizer companies on the block next year?

Live Mint  

The Centre plans to revive the strategic sale of state-owned fertilizer companies beginning next fiscal year, two people aware of the matter said, even as it works to boost domestic production and reduce imports. The eight fertilizer PSUs are Brahmaputra Valley Fertilizer Corp. Ltd, Fertilizers and Chemicals Travancore, FCI Aravali Gypsum and Mineral Ltd, Madras Fertilizers Ltd, National Fertilizers Ltd, …

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A food crisis of the government’s own making
3 years, 1 month ago

A food crisis of the government’s own making

The Hindu  

There is consensus in the scientific community that organic agriculture could reduce crop yield. Organic mania In May, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered a halt to importing chemical fertilizers to turn the island nation’s agriculture sector fully organic. Not only did the government seem to believe that there would be little or no yield loss from agriculture that is …

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Hit by fertilizer shortage, farmer ends life in M.P.
3 years, 1 month ago

Hit by fertilizer shortage, farmer ends life in M.P.

The Hindu  

Amid acute shortage of fertilizers during the sowing of rabi crops, a 44-year-old farmer allegedly committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh. For the past 10-15 days he was visiting fertilizer distribution centres but in vain, the deceased’s younger brother and nephew told media persons. Ever since the crisis, news and photographs of farmers sleeping outside the fertilizer distribution centres and women …

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Sri Lanka eyeing green agriculture
3 years, 2 months ago

Sri Lanka eyeing green agriculture

The Hindu  

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a task force on ‘green agriculture’, his office said on Saturday, while Sri Lanka’s farmers continue protesting his government’s abrupt ‘organic fertilizer only’ policy shift since May this year. Describing the government’s fertilizer ban “a blunder” that threatens food production in the country, the soil scientist told The Hindu : “It is a contradiction because …

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