Outcome of Zonal Conference on Fertilizers for Kharif 2014

ENSUING RABI SEASON 2013-14

Cumulative Requirement * Cumulative Availability Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of Fertilizers up to January (31.01.2014)in Rabi 2013-14 Product Cumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability * Cumulative Sales Urea 13209.00 11715.00 11243.00 DAP 3964.00 3393.00 2583.00 MOP 1093.00 717.00 465.00 NPK 4191.00 3564.00 2923.00 * Source : FMS Website

% sales w.r.t requirement Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of DAP up to January (31.01.2014) in Rabi 2013-14 State Product Cumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability (In ‘000 MT) *Cumulative Sales % sales w.r.t requirement Jharkhand DAP 35.00 10.46 6.28 17.94 Chhattisgarh 82.00 82.01 28.07 34.23 Punjab 395.00 204.71 161.93 40.99 Tamil Nadu 170.45 91.48 77.94 45.73 Madhya Pradesh 490.00 341.23 228.49 46.63 Karnataka 189.00 139.71 93.96 49.71 * Source : FMS Website

% sales w.r.t requirement Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of MOP up to January (31.01.2014) in Rabi 2013-14 State Product Cumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability (In ‘000 MT) *Cumulative Sales % sales w.r.t requirement Rajasthan MOP 11.70 3.43 1.04 8.89 Odisha 25.69 18.08 8.59 33.44 Kerala 62.00 25.41 23.86 38.48 Karnataka 102.00 55.97 39.55 38.77 Maharashtra 108.30 83.80 46.16 42.62 * Source : FMS Website

BALANCED USE OF FERTILIZERS

Computed requirement vis-à-vis consumption ‘N’ Nutrient States Computed Requirement of ‘N’ (‘000 tonnes) Consumption of ‘N’ (‘000 tonnes) Kharif 2011 Kharif 2012 Kharif 2013 Punjab 569 694 692 637 A.P 885 988 912 1037 Computed requirement vis-à-vis consumption ‘P’ Nutrient Computed Requirement of ‘P’ (‘000 tonnes) Consumption of ‘P’ (‘000 tonnes) 123 186 195 100.28

Promotion of balanced use of fertilizers Consumption of Urea (‘N’) to be curtailed in Andhra Pradesh, Punjab Promoting Site Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) Soil testing based application of fertilizers Use of soil fertility maps developed by IISS Bhopal Use of area specific customized fertilizers New ICT based Tool ‘Nutrient Expert’ developed by IPNI/CIMMYT for maize and wheat Convert 5% of DAP demand into SSP demand as SSP is indigenously produced and cheaper fertilizer compared to DAP. In Nutrient value, it provides extra value for Ca and S Micro-nutrients

Soil Fertility Maps Indian Institute of Soil Sciences (IISS) Bhopal has uploaded the soil fertility maps of about 170 districts of 19 major states on their website (www.iiss.nic.in/index.html) These maps show status of availability of various nutrients ‘N’, ‘P’, ‘K’ etc in terms of low, high, medium etc. INM Division is compiling the practices being adopted by various states in respect of soil tests /fertility maps based application of fertilizers

Status of Nitrogen(‘N’) Nawada, Bihar Darbhanga, Bihar

Status of Phosphorous(‘P’) Churu, Rajasthan Ganganagar, Rajasthan

Status of Potassium (‘K’) Hoshiarpur, Punjab Bathinda, Punjab

Status of Micronutrient ’Zn’ Akola, Maharashtra Nasik, Maharashtra

Status of Micronutrient ’B’ Bhiwani, Haryana Hisar, Haryana

INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT Promote use of Bio-fertilizers 1. Phosphorous solublizing bio-fertilizers (PSB) Current production of bio-fertilizers as per recommended dose of bio-fertilizers (kg/hectare) can cover only 10% of total gross cropped area of our country. State Governments were requested to Start a campaign to Increase PSB coverage 2. Potash mobilizing bio-fertilizers (KMB) 3. Consortia Bio-fertilizers is also being notified in FCO Use of Organic Manures/Green Manures

FERTILIZER USE EFFICIENCY To enhance fertilizer use efficiency, Use of urea products such as neem coated urea, zincated urea, sulphur coated urea, urea briquettes etc may be promoted in place of plain urea

Assessment of requirement of fertilizers for Kharif 2014

All India Fertilizer requirement for Kharif 2014 Product Assessed Requirement (in ‘000 tonnes) Urea Actual Allocation Reserve Allocation Total 14659.74 1240.00 15899.74 DAP 4856.69 MOP 1516.97 Complexes (NPK) 4959.71 SSP 3492.79

Comparison of Requirement of fertilizers in last two Kharif seasons Product Kharif 2013 Kharif 2014 Requirement (‘000 MT) *Consumption Urea 15319.00 15224.90 15899.00 DAP 6459.00 3392.54 4856.00 MOP 2025.00 1192.93 1517.00 Complex 5482.00 3304.85 4960.00 SSP 2529.00 1830.15 3493.00 * Source : State Government

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