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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay connected Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his involution to guarantee the uninterrupted proviso of fertilizers, specifically urea and Diammonium Phosphate (DAP), to the State for the 2026 Kharif season.
In his letter, Mr. Vijay said determination is simply a shortfall successful the proviso of fertilizers by manufacturers during April and May 2026. Tamil Nadu is an agrarian State, and agriculture provides livelihood to much than 40% of the population. The gross cultivated country is 62.25 lakh hectares and the nett sown country is 48.27 lakh hectares.
About 92% of the full farmers are tiny and marginal who person landholdings of little than 2 hectares. Tamil Nadu is endowed with 3% of India’s h2o resources and has a diversified cropping strategy that includes paddy, millets, oilseeds, cotton, sugarcane, vegetables, flowers, fruits, medicinal and aromatic crops, spices and condiments, and plantation crops, Mr. Vijay said.
He said since assuming bureau connected May 10, helium has been reviewing department-wise activities successful Tamil Nadu, and during his reappraisal of the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department, it emerged that fertilizer manufacturers had not supplied fertilizers arsenic per the Government of India’s proviso program for April and May 2026.
A full quantity of 39,001 MT of urea, 28,607 MT of DAP, and 24,235 MT of Muriate of Potash (MOP) had not been supplied successful the past 2 months arsenic per the proviso plan, resulting successful a shortfall.
The Chief Minister said cultivation activities are successful afloat plaything for the cultivation of paddy, achromatic gram, greenish gram, groundnut, gingelly, and horticultural crops crossed the State. As the onset of the Southwest Monsoon has been predicted successful the 3rd week of May 2026 by the IMD and wide showers are being experienced successful large pockets of the State, determination is large enthusiasm among farmers to cultivate the maximum country during the Kharif season. Consequently, the request for fertilizers, particularly urea and DAP, is apt to summation successful the ensuing months.
“Shortage of fertilizers astatine this important juncture volition beryllium costly for the nutrient information of the State. In the circumstances, the State authorities is keen connected ensuring capable availability of fertilizers arsenic we person planned to screen 25 lakh hectares nether assorted crops during Kharif 2026, which accounts for astir 40% of the gross cropped country successful Tamil Nadu,” the Chief Minister said.
As harvest cultivation successful the existent Kharif play has received a fillip owed to assorted conducive factors, a crisp surge successful request for consecutive fertilizers, peculiarly urea and DAP, is expected successful the coming days, helium said, urging the Prime Minister to contented indispensable instructions to guarantee that the shortfall successful fertilizers is addressed immediately.
He urged the Prime Minister to nonstop the authorities acrophobic to proviso the required quantity to conscionable the request for the remainder of the Kharif season, specified arsenic 3.83 lakh MT of urea, 1.05 lakh MT of DAP, and 0.83 lakh MT of MOP.
