Union Budget 2023: Foundation for sustainable farming is missing in India

Ambitious initiatives for farmers are promising but transition to sustainable agriculture requires healthy soil and inputs

Resource war India after 2020

If the developing world today is the locus of climate change  mitigation, including reduction in emissions, then there surely must exist a …

Shrouded in secrecy

Ready for Y2K

Killer let loose

Arsenic and lead leach out from popular US fertiliser

HEALTH RISK

Control move

Government’s April 1 gift to farmers

Invincible

Oswal's polluting chemicals and fertilizers plant in Orissa

Environmental hitches

Thriving on sewage

Two industrial units in Chennai find an alternative source of water: city sewage

Standoff

Between urea industry and gas producers over LNG price

Foul play

Fluoridation raises concerns

Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea

Move to aim at controlling excessive urea usage and promoting zero-budget farming

Fuelling a crisis

Revised urea policy rekindles debate on just allocation of cleaner fuels

Enter the Bank

Nano urea in field trials: Spraying liquid fertiliser spiking input costs for farmers

Farmers say input costs went up, but no benefits like increased crop production

South Asia

Union Budget 2020-2021 suggests balanced use of all kinds of fertilisers

Major reforms needed in fertiliser sector, govnt policies that promote urea

8% FOREVER

Per capita emissions will remain competitively low  

Some sectors will struggle to be the best, some can’t as they operate in tropical India

The dirty dozens

Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Dip in yield, low protein content: PAU field experiment finds several problems with nano urea

Production can decrease further year on year if nano urea application is continued