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It’s time to decontrol the fertiliser sector

August 25, 2025 6:59 am

Excessive controls are stifling the industry, with reduced fertiliser availability hurting farmers in a good monsoon

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China is using fertiliser as a weapon. And Modi government has shown little urgency to help farmers

July 12, 2025 8:05 am

Those in charge promised atmanirbharta and delivered dependence, promised vision and delivered a vacuum

Explained: How China has caused a DAP supply squeeze

June 30, 2025 12:06 pm

From being India’s top supplier to stopping exports, China has triggered a shortage of the key fertiliser DAP. But both the industry and farmers have adjusted to that. Here's how

Punjab: Study shows how a smart combo of fertilisers can protect soil health

June 17, 2025 9:23 am

In states like Punjab, where overuse of fertilisers is common, the combined use of nano and conventional fertilisers offers a balanced, eco-friendly approach to crop nutrition.

Kisan Diwas, National Farmers Day 2024: This year, the Government of India is celebrating Kisan Diwas under the idea of "Empowering ‘Annadatas’ for a Prosperous Nation."

National Farmers Day 2024: Know date, history, and significance behind Kisan Diwas

December 23, 2024 10:58 am

Kisan Diwas 2024: This day also commemorates the birth anniversary of India's sixth Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh.

A farmer's encounter with climate change

July 02, 2022 8:55 am

This year has been a rude awakening. Generations' worth of knowledge was not enough to prepare us for the climate crisis in my village

India must shed obsession with ‘marginal farmers’. Their future lies outside farms — in dairy, poultry, food retail

September 21, 2021 8:34 am

Farming is best left to those who can do it well. Better fewer, but better.

Long dry spell leaves farmers worried, puts brakes on sowing

July 06, 2021 10:51 pm

The central government's decision last week to bring back stock limits on pulses sent shock waves across the industry, especially as just about nine months ago, the government had amended the Essential Commodities Act, 1950 and taken off pulses and oilseeds from the list.

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PM asks states to focus on infra & exports, makes pitch for farmers

February 21, 2021 5:40 am

With Cabinet colleagues and chief ministers of most states joining him via video conference, the Prime Minister urged states to prepare agro climatic regional planning strategies to help farmers, and create conditions for boosting exports at the district level.

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Good auguries

February 10, 2021 9:07 am

Weather-enabled bumper production in India and ongoing global price recovery could provide opening for resolving farm crisis.

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted in the alleged Punjab National Bank fraud case that they allegedly orchestrated through fraudulent Letters of Undertaking in connivance with some bank officials at the Brady House branch in Mumbai.

‘Personal space, adequate light’: India assures Belgium on Mehul Choksi if extradited

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Four months after Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamond trader wanted in India for the alleged Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan fraud case, was arrested in Belgium, India sent a letter of assurance to the country’s government, saying it will keep him in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail complex, “if extradited”.

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