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UP: Mayawati expresses concern over shortage, black marketing of urea

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Saturday expressed concern over the shortage and black marketing of urea in Uttar Pradesh and urged the government to look into the matter

UP to invoke NSA on urea black marketers, law agencies conduct 7,500 raids

In kharif season 2020, UP has urea inventory of 2.73 million tonnes

Sadananda Gowda assures Telangana of adequate urea supply for Kharif season

Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday assured Telangana of adequate availability of urea for the ongoing Kharif (summer sowing) season.

Electronics to urea: China is everywhere in India's consumer industries

Import of mobile phone components during April-February FY20, according to government figures, hit $7.5 billion - of which 25 per cent was from the land of the dragon.

Reversing degradation of land

The government's approach towards fertilisers and soil health seems rather paradoxical

How to end urea import? Nitin Gadkari wants nation's urine to be stored

Some years ago, Gadkari had created a flutter by saying that he stored his own urine and used it as fertiliser for the garden at his official bungalow in Delhi

Big bonanza for UP farmers as Adityanath govt cuts urea prices by 10%

State exchequer to take a hit of Rs 1,000 crore in VAT kitty

Urea paucity worry may return to north India; 1 mn tonne stuck in ports

The government claims there is no problem for transporting fertilisers

Blame game over shortage of urea in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

Urea is sold at the government fixed price of Rs 5,360 per tonnes. It is the most commonly used fertiliser because it is highly subsidised

Urea self-sufficiency by FY21: Govt

The central government, with cash-rich coal, power and oil public sector units, will jointly invest around Rs 50,000 crore to revive closed fertiliser plants and set up new gas pipelines. All of which would make India self-sufficient in urea by 2020-21. Production was 24.5 mt in 2016-17.Briefing reporters after a mid-course assessment on revival of closed fertiliser plants, Union minister Ananth Kumar said as and when all five closed units start full-fledged operation, annual domestic urea production would rise to 7.3 million tonnes, thereby meeting the demand of 31-32 mt.Beside investing in rebuilding the shut urea plants at Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, Sindri in Jharkhand, Talcher in Odisha and Barauni in Bihar, about Rs 13,000 crore is being invested in laying a gas pipeline to connect the eastern region with the rest of the country.Another Rs 6,000-8,000 crore is being invested in setting up a terminal to import liquefied natural gas at Dhamra in Odisha, taking the total ...

After arhar, government plans to expand area under new moong variant

The moong variety has cleared all the field trials and has been circulated among farmers, gives an average yield of 10-12 quintals per hectare

Controls reason for thriving black market in urea

Good quantities of both domestic and imported urea find their way into neighbouring countries

Govt eases norms for import of industrial grade urea

The move is aimed at checking diversion, besides improving ease of doing business

Govt not to revise urea price for three years

Junior chemicals and fertilizer minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir says era of fertiliser shortage, including urea is over; farmers can now get their required quantity

Highest ever urea output of 24.5 mt in FY16

This could lead to reduction of import by two mt, the government said