State received 0.24L tonnes higher urea than allotment in September: Minister Tummala

HYDERABAD

Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao stated that the Centre has supplied 7.88 lakh tonnes of urea till September 25 from April this twelvemonth to Telangana against the allotment of 9.8 lakh tonnes for the ongoing Kharif season.

Giving the details of urea allotment and proviso connected Friday, helium said the lone alleviation the State has been provided during the existent period is that it has been supplied 1.84 lakh tonnes of urea successful September against the allotment of 1.6 lakh tonnes and during the remaining months it was lone shortage supply.

Stating that the farming assemblage had suffered owed to abbreviated proviso of urea each period this season, but they had immoderate alleviation successful September arsenic the State had been supplied much than the allotted quantity. However, the wide proviso of urea for the play is inactive successful shortage by astir 2 lakh tonnes.

To flooded the shortage for the Rabi season, the Minister requested the Centre to proviso astatine slightest 2 lakh tonnes of urea each period during the archetypal 3 months of the Rabi play — from October to December. The request for Rabi is assessed astatine 10.4 lakh tonnes.

The Minister said 1,21 lakh tonnes urea was supplied to the State successful April against the allotment of 1.71 lakh tonnes, lone 0.88 lakh tonnes against 1.61 lakh tonnes successful May, 0.98 lakh tonnes against 1.7 lakh tonnes successful June, 1.43 lakh tonnes against 1.6 lakh tonnes successful July and 1.55 lakh tonnes against 1.7 lakh tonnes successful August.

He attributed the abbreviated proviso to the hold successful finalising the tenders for urea imports and uncertainty successful imports owing to the geopolitical issues specified arsenic Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Iran wars, putting the farming assemblage to hardships.

In summation to the urea supplied to the State truthful far, it would besides beryllium getting 9,864 tonnes of urea reaching ports connected Friday (September 26) and different 9,674 tonnes connected Saturday from CIL, IPL-Gangavaram, NFL-Vizag, IPL-Jupiter, IFFCO, Narmada, NBCL-Symphony and SPIC. It would beryllium transported to Warangal, Mancherial, Gadwal, Karimnagar, Pandillapalli, Jadcharla and Thimmapur railway rake points.

The Minister stated that the State was expected to person different 34,700 tonnes urea from NFL-Mangala, CIL-Grace, IPL-Gangavaram, Jupiter, IPL-Rek Grace, SPIC, KRIBHCO, IPL-Jupiter, NBCL-Wadi and CIL-Ruby companies by the month-end.

He pointed retired that by the aforesaid time, the urea income successful the State past twelvemonth (last Kharif) were 9.3 lakh tonnes and this twelvemonth they were 9.5 lakh tonnes, including buffer/carry implicit stocks.