India's fiscal deficit for the first six months of the fiscal year reached Rs 7.14 lakh crore. Total receipts during this period equaled Rs...

India is recommended to shift from product-based fertiliser subsidies to direct support for farmers to improve soil health. It involves int...

The Sandoz penicillin plant in Kundl, Austria, is under threat from cheaper Chinese antibiotic production. European healthcare programs ben...

For the better part of a decade now, every time this critical sector has run into trouble, the government has stepped in. The clean-up bega...

Bihar has imposed restrictions on the sale of non-subsidised fertilisers to control access for farmers. These restrictions could limit the ...

India’s fertiliser strategy must, therefore, evolve from a question of choosing between conventional and new-age fertilisers to one of inte...

As FY27 progresses, India's fiscal deficit climbed to an alarming Rs 7.10 lakh crore within the first five months, representing 41.9% of th...

Landed sulphur prices in India have doubled since January to around $1,050-1,100 a tonne, according to industry estimates.

The government plans to introduce differential subsidies for DAP under the Nutrient Based Subsidy scheme, with rates potentially varying ba...

India can produce sixty-two million metric tonnes of compressed biogas annually. Animal waste alone offers substantial potential for biogas...

The government is likely to consider tomorrow a proposal to fix subsidy on non-urea phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for 2013-14 fiscal.

As the multiple headwinds that the fertiliser industry was facing during FY13 continue, short-term concerns persist for the sector, said Ed...

The Cabinet is likely to discuss a proposal to fix the subsidy on non-urea phosphatic and potassic fertilisers for the 2013-14 fiscal.

Jena has said that the govt should also ask companies to provide costing of phosphatic and potassic fertilisers on which subsidy is given t...

The government on Thursday announced an increase in the subsidy for potash and di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) under the Nutrient Based Subsidy...

A key committee of secretaries that met on Monday has agreed "in principle" to bring urea under the nutrient-based subsidy regime, or NBS.

The new nutrient-based subsidy policy is finally effective from April 1, 2010. The subsidy will be admissible for the three macro nutrients...