Ministry of Fertilizers ensuring availability of fertilizers during current Kharif season

Adequate availability and supply of fertilizers has been ensured during the ongoing Kharif Season according to Union Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Sadananda Gowda who said that his Ministry is monitoring the supplies very closely.

To ensure adequate availability of urea in Telangana, Agriculture Minister Singireddy Niranjan Reddy met Gowda in New Delhi. He informed the Union minister that sales of urea have seen substantial increase this Kharif season as compared to that of last year because of the increase in acreage under cultivation in the State and requested for speeding up supply of urea to Telangana.

Gowda has requested the Telangana Government to ensure that data about sales and stocks are updated on iFMS dashboard in a timely manner to understand about availability of fertilizers on real time basis.

For the month of August, against the projected requirement of 2.50 Lakh MT of urea, the Department of Fertilizers has ensured availability of 3.38 Lakh MT for Telangana. The stock available as on 16.08.2020 is 1.76 Lakh MT which is sufficient to meet the remaining requirement of the current month which is projected as 1.20 Lakh MT.