The government should have a complete control over fertiliser prices and the decision to raise urea price by 10 per cent be withdrawn, a farmers's body said here today.
"We demand for providing fertiliser subsidy directly to the farmers based on his land holding," Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers' Movement (ICCFM) said in a statement.
Releasing its Budget wishlist, ICCFM, an organisation floated by various factions of Bharatiya Kissan Union (BKU), said the direct subsidy be given to practicing farmers and not to companies and industries.
On the recently announced nutrient-based subsidy scheme, it has expressed concern over "who would decide about the soil condition and how".
"We would like to demand from the government to have a complete control over the fertiliser prices because a fallout of the new policy would be fixed subsidy-floating price system which would mean increased prices for fertiliser," it said.
ICCFM has also asked the government not to include the recent decision of 10 per cent hike in urea prices in 2010-11 Budget, to be presented on February 26.
The farmers' body has sought the debt relief scheme be extended to those who have taken loans from private moneylenders as the scheme had covered only those under institutional lendings.