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Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has said that the Telangana Government has deployed a mobile fertiliser App connected the lines of Kapas Kisan App for ensuring timely proviso of fertilisers to farmers.
The App is being implemented connected a aviator ground successful Adilabad, Mahbubnagar, Jangaon, Peddapalli and Nalgonda districts enabling seamless booking and acquisition of urea by farmers. Replying to a query during the Question Hour successful the Legislative Assembly connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026), helium said determination was nary scarcity of urea and different fertilisers successful the State during the existent season.
Markfed was appointed arsenic nodal bureau to support capable buffer banal astatine the territory level up of the commencement of the season. The State presently has banal of 1.67 lakh tonne of urea for proviso to farmers till March this year. Of the full request of 10.4 lakh tonne for the season, the Government received proviso of 6.19 lakh tonne till January 5 of which, 4.5 lakh tonne was sold leaving equilibrium of 1.67 lakh tonne.
He said determination would not beryllium a situation each twelvemonth and that the shortage noticed during past kharif was chiefly connected relationship of delayed proviso of imported urea by the Central Government and unopen down of Ramagundam Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited during the highest season. The Government had initiated respective steps to cheque achromatic selling and instructions were issued for instauration of further merchantability points and utilisation of Rythu Vedikas wherever required to guarantee timely transportation of fertilisers to farmers.
The Government was requested to proviso an further 60,000 tonne of urea for January which would beryllium met and it had forged progressive coordination with railways and larboard authorities for timely drawal of the allocated quantities.
