Dr Arabinda Kumar Padhee is Director, Country Relations and Business Affairs - New Delhi, ICRISAT. He has a Master’s degree in Agricultural Science from BHU and a PhD from the Indian Agricultural ...

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday decided to implement direct benefit transfer (DBT) for fertilizer subsidy payments across India, seeking to prevent diversion of fertilizers for commercial use and ...

Sale of all subsidised fertilizers to farmers/buyers is now made through point of sale (PoS) devices installed at each retailer shop. Fertilizers are crucial productivity augmenting inputs. To meet ...

In a bid to overcome the connectivity (network) problems faced in carrying out transactions particularly in the rural areas, Aadhaar-enabled sale of fertilizers through e-PoS (electronic Point of Sale ...

The Cabinet approval of the proposal from Department of Fertilizers to continue urea subsidy scheme from 2017 up to 2020 at a total estimated cost of Rs 1,64,935 crore along with the nationwide ...

It is budget time. After two years of splurge, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has alluded to a return to fiscal consolidation. A major area meriting attention is fertilizer subsidy which jumped ...

THOOTHUKUDI: A mandatory ‘caste category’ entry introduced in point of sale (PoS) machines in fertilizer shops for getting fertilizer subsidies has enraged Tamil Nadu farmers. In a software update for ...

The Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) has completed an injunction, enabling the owner of a shipment of explosive fertilizer, currently stuck at the DBT Terminal in Muuga ...

When you realize the impossibility of major reforms, you make do with the available possibilities. That seems to be the motto of investors in fertilizer stocks. They drove up fertilizer shares last ...