Outcome of Zonal Conference on Fertilizers for Kharif 2014

ENSUING RABI SEASON

Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of Fertilizers up to January ( )in Rabi ProductCumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Sales (In ‘000 MT) Urea DAP MOP NPK * Source : FMS Website

Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of DAP up to January ( ) in Rabi StateProductCumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability (In ‘000 MT) *Cumulative Sales (In ‘000 MT) % sales w.r.t requirement JharkhandDAP ChhattisgarhDAP PunjabDAP Tamil NaduDAP Madhya PradeshDAP KarnatakaDAP * Source : FMS Website

Sales vis-a-vis Requirement of MOP up to January ( ) in Rabi StateProductCumulative Requirement (In ‘000 MT) * Cumulative Availability (In ‘000 MT) *Cumulative Sales (In ‘000 MT) % sales w.r.t requirement RajasthanMOP OdishaMOP KeralaMOP KarnatakaMOP MaharashtraMOP * 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 2011Kharif 2012Kharif 2013 Punjab A.P Computed requirement vis-à-vis consumption ‘P’ Nutrient States Computed Requirement of ‘P’ (‘000 tonnes) Consumption of ‘P’ (‘000 tonnes) Kharif 2011Kharif 2012Kharif 2013 Punjab

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 ( 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, BiharDarbhanga, Bihar

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

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

Status of Micronutrient ’Zn’ Akola, MaharashtraNasik, Maharashtra

Status of Micronutrient ’B’ Bhiwani, HaryanaHisar, 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 ProductAssessed Requirement (in ‘000 tonnes) UreaActual Allocation Reserve Allocation Total DAP MOP Complexes (NPK) SSP

Comparison of Requirement of fertilizers in last two Kharif seasons Product Kharif 2013Kharif 2014 Requirement (‘000 MT) *Consumption (‘000 MT) Requirement (‘000 MT) Urea DAP MOP Complex SSP * Source : State Government

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