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22 Aug 2022

India hands over 21,000 tonnes of fertilizer to Sri Lanka

India handed over 21,000 tonnes of fertilizer to Sri Lanka on Monday India has been at the forefront in helping crisis-laden Sri Lanka Sri Lankans have been facing extreme shortage of essentials

06 Nov 2021

India extends support to Sri Lanka amid contaminated fertilizer row with China

Two Indian Air force Globemaster aircrafts delivered the Indian supplies to Sri Lanka. In a quid pro quo move, China blacklisted People's Bank of Sri Lanka.

09 Sep 2019

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Ramdev Dhurandhar

15 Dec 2017

Ramdev Dhurandhar receives Shrilal Shukla Smriti IFFCO Sahitya Samman

The Shrilal Shukla Smriti IFFCO Sahitya Samman was started way back in 2011.

14 Nov 2017

Setting up urine banks may help farmers with urea, says Nitin Gadkari

The government has a new idea up its sleeve. According to Union minister Nitin Gadkari, every tehsil/taluka should have urine banks to produce urea. The urea can then be used as fertilizer and given to the farmer. The idea behind this is to reduce farmer's dependency on urea import.

12 Jan 2016

Pune: Farmer invents waste composting machine

eight core industries growth

02 Nov 2015

Core sector growth up 3.2% in September; fastest in 4 months

The eight core industries -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel, cement and electricity -- comprising nearly 38 percent of India's total industrial production had grown at 2.6 percent in the same month of last year.

eight core industries growth

02 Nov 2015

Growth of eight core industries rises 3.2% in September

As per government data released Monday, electricity and fertilizer production grew 10.8 percent and 18.1 percent respectively while that of steel, oil and cement production fell 2.5 percent. 0.1 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively.

13 May 2015

Centre to bring more reforms, not to raise urea prices: Kumar

Fertiliser Minister Ananth Kumar Wednesday said government will continue with the second generation "farmer centric" reforms in the sector to make the country self-sufficient in urea without increasing its prices.

Core sector growth

31 Mar 2015

Core sector growth slows down to 1.4% in February

The eight core sector industries — coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilizer, steel, cement and electricity.

02 Oct 2014

Urea imports dip 34% to 27 LT in first 6 mths

Urea imports have decreased by 34 percent to 26.95 lakh tonne in the first 6 months of 2014-15, due to carry over stocks from the last fiscal.

09 Jun 2014

Government plans urea price hike to curb fertiliser subsidies

The first major price hike in four years would mark an important step by Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s new government to cut wasteful use of urea.

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