Production of diammonium phosphate (DAP) fell 7.3% in the April-October period while imports plunged nearly 30%, showed data from the Fertiliser Association of India (FAI), which represents fertilizer makers, importers and distributors. DAP is widely used in farming wheat, pulses and mustard, popular winter (rabi) crops.
The agriculture sector is India's largest employer, and poor yields resulting from insufficient soil nutrients could have an adverse impact on rural incomes and the wider economy.
"Due to disturbances in the global supply chain, we are not receiving enough raw materials required to manufacture fertilizers. Additionally, we are not getting sufficient raw materials from China, as it has stopped exporting key inputs, citing an uptick in its own domestic demand," FAI chairman N. Suresh Krishnan said.
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Man dupes families by posing as abducted kin, held
On November 24, 40-year-old Raju returned to his house in Khoda, Ghaziabad over three decades after he was kidnapped, and his family tearfully celebrated the return of their long-lost son.
Atishi Presents Awards to 207 Students for Excellence
Delhi chief minister Atishi felicitated 207 school students, including 58 differently abled students, for excelling in the Class 10 and 12 board exams, at a ceremony held at Thyagaraj Stadium on Friday.
1.06-minute CCTV footage shows sequence of events
CCTV footage from the classroom at a private school in Vasant Vihar has emerged as crucial evidence in the case of a 12-year-old student's death, capturing the confrontation between the victim, Prince, and a classmate which eventually led to the victim's tragic death.
Comic Con, festivals, heritage walks are on as pollution cloud lifts
This week (Monday to Friday), Delhi's average AQI has been 244, as good as it gets this time of the year, at least since the late 2000s when the city's air quality took a turn for the worse after Punjab passed a water conservation law that started the trend of stubble burning.
NEWBORN BOY'S BODY FOUND NEAR WEST DELHI PARK
A newborn baby boy was found dead near a park in west Delhi's Uttam Nagar on Friday morning, police said, adding that a case has been registered and investigation is underway.
World's smallest gull seen in Ggm, only third known sighting in NCR
Birders on Friday made a rare, exciting sighting in Gurugram, spotting a little gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) near Chandu-Budhera, with experts stating that this is possibly only the third recorded sighting of the bird in the NCR.
Neb Sarai murders: Father spotted 20-yr-old with girlfriend, beat him
A 20-year-old man arrested for the chilling murders of his father, mother, and sister at their Neb Sarai home told investigators that his father had recently struck him and publicly berated him after \"catching\" him with his girlfriend in a market.
HC denies Kejriwal early hearing
The Delhi high court on Friday refused to give an early hearing to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on his plea against a city court's order taking cognizance of the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Delhi excise policy case.
BJP deleting names of voters: Kejriwal
Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal on Friday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has filed applications to delete the names of more than 11,000 living voters from the electoral roll in the Shahdara constituency ahead of the Delhi assembly polls, and said that his party will give a representation to the Election Commission of India (EC) to demand a probe into the matter.
AAP CHIEF WHIP DILIP PANDEY OPTS OUT OF 2025 ASSEMBLY POLLS
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Dilip Kumar Pandey, who is the party's chief whip in the Delhi assembly, on Friday opted out of contesting the upcoming state polls.