The farmers have been getting the benefits of fertilizer subsidies since the era of the Green revolution. It has become a core component of providing input support to the agricultural sector.<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, the government has announced an increase of 140% in the subsidy amount of DAP (Diammonium phosphate) fertilizer. It is expected to provide a sigh of relief to the farming community who is already facing severe pandemic stress. They have lost their loved ones and are battling the double jeopardy of rising healthcare bills and reduced urban remittances. This move would bring temporary relief to the sector but a permanent solution warrants long term reforms to make the agriculture sector more lucrative.<\/span><\/p>\n The subsidies are like a dole to the farmer, it is saving his body but destroying its spirit. The ultimate solution is to make agriculture more lucrative and remunerative which would gradually lead to the withdrawal of subsidies and relieve the government of their fiscal burden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction The subsidy allows an individual to buy a product or use a service at a lower price than its market cost. The government in India has been providing a host of price subsidies on kerosene, cooking gas, water, electricity, fertilizer, etc. in order to support the vulnerable sections. The farmers have been getting the… Continue reading Issue of fertilizer subsidy in India – Explained, Pointwise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[1285],"class_list":["post-108352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","tag-agri_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":46,"cached_at":1698384563,"cached_date":1698470044},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Current Scenario<\/b><\/h5>\n
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About DAP<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Fertilizer Subsidy in India<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Nutrient Based Subsidy(NBS) regime for Non-Urea fertilizers<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Need for increasing the fertilizer subsidy on DAP<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Steps to taken by Government to prevent fertilizer overuse<\/b><\/h5>\n
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Issues associated with fertilizer subsidy<\/b><\/h5>\n
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