{"id":214684,"date":"2022-11-16T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=214684"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T15:14:07","slug":"boosting-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/boosting-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Boosting production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cBoosting production\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Business Standard <\/strong>on <strong>16th November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Industrial policy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: Fertiliser sector<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News- <\/strong>The article explains the situation of the fertiliser sector in India. It tells about the issues related to fertiliser subsidy.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the current situation of fertiliser production in our country?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Government has recently commissioned a fertiliser plant at Ramagundam in Telangana last week.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the five public-sector fertiliser plants that were taken up for revival under the New Urea Policy of 2015. These units would add over 6 million tonnes to the country\u2019s existing urea production capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The new urea policy has helped enhance the<strong> energy-use efficiency<\/strong> of the existing gas-based urea units. It has led to an increase in their net output.<\/p>\n<p>India is close to achieving<strong> self-sufficiency<\/strong> in urea production.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the issues related to fertiliser subsidy?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Government\u2019s<strong> fertiliser subsidy bill<\/strong> may still remain high. It is because of the unabated imports of phosphatic and potassic fertilisers and heavy discounts on their sale.<\/p>\n<p>A bag of DAP, priced in the international market at around Rs 4,000, is being supplied to farmers at only around Rs 2,500.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are some facts about nano urea?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>It is developed and patented by Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO). It contains nitrogen nutrient in a size that is <strong>much thinner<\/strong> than that in normal <strong>granular urea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Government is lending full support for production and promotion of this product.<\/p>\n<p>IFFCO has <strong>licensed the technology<\/strong> for the production of this liquid fertiliser to a couple of public-sector urea producers free of cost. The purpose is to make this critical plant nutrient available to farmers at cheaper rates.<\/p>\n<p>One 500 ml bottle of nano urea is deemed equivalent to a bag of normal urea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cBoosting production\u201d published in The Business Standard on 16th November 2022. Syllabus: GS3- Industrial policy Relevance: Fertiliser sector News- The article explains the situation of the fertiliser sector in India. It tells about the issues related to fertiliser subsidy. What is the current situation of fertiliser production&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/boosting-production\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boosting production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-214684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704636058},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214684","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}