Shrouded in secrecy

Budget 2020-21: Expect direct benefit transfer for urea

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

Fertilising frustration

A so-called farmer's cooperative fertiliser company is ruining agricultural land in Uttar Pradesh

Ready for Y2K

Killer let loose

Arsenic and lead leach out from popular US fertiliser

Food for soil

The 'green revolution' has boosted agricultural production and transformed semi-arid land, but its long-term effects on soil quality in India …

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

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

The green dream

Environmental problems in Pakistan have grabbed media headlines, but never the serious attention of its leaders. The country's brief rendezvous …

HEALTH RISK

India’s fertiliser industry needs to prioritise pollution control: CSE Study

The industry has been classified under the ‘red category’ of polluting sectors by the Central Pollution Control Board

Control move

Government’s April 1 gift to farmers

Invincible

Oswal's polluting chemicals and fertilizers plant in Orissa

This Kenyan farmer is modernizing — and maintaining a circular mindset

A concept of growing interest in developed countries, a circular economy keeps resources in use for as long as possible, and extracts maximum value

Environmental hitches

Sewage power

Mumbai's Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers recycles sewage to run the cooling towers of its plants

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

Livestock manure not so safe for food production

An FAO report highlights that livestock manure is one of the top sources of soil contamination

Survey proposes direct benefit transfer in fertiliser subsidy

The government spent Rs 73,000 crore as subsidy on fertilizers in 2015-16

Foul play

Fluoridation raises concerns

Life industry goldrush

Trade in bio-industrial products is on in full swing, conjuring up visions of El dorado. But whether the Indian industry can embark on this …

Bihar witnesses violent protests over fertiliser shortage

Farmers loot fertiliser trucks and block roads; state blames Union government  

Fight against pollution may witness a paradigm shift

Very soon the emissions from domestic sewage may out run the pollution from fertilisers

Bitter organic brew

Falling income and lukewarm market are forcing organic coffee growers to go back to chemical fertilisers