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The Telangana authorities urged the Centre to code a important shortfall successful urea supplies and guarantee capable allocations for the coming months.
In a missive addressed to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Jagat Prakash Nadda, Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao highlighted the spread betwixt planned and existent urea supplies during April and May 2026 and sought contiguous involution to safeguard fertilizer availability for farmers.
In his letter, the Minister said arsenic against the planned allocation of 2 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of urea for April 2026, the State received lone 1.53 LMT, resulting successful a shortfall of 0.47 LMT.
The proviso concern remained challenging successful May arsenic well. Against a request of 2 LMT, lone 1.67 LMT had been dispatched. This has adversely affected the State’s efforts to physique buffer stocks up of the highest cultivation season.
To flooded the situation, the State authorities requested the Centre to nonstop fertilizer importers, including NBCL, IPL and KRIBHCO, to marque up the April shortage of 0.47 LMT. The authorities requested an other 0.47 LMT of urea implicit and supra the June allocation arsenic compensation for the shortfall experienced successful April.
The Minister noted that the State’s request for urea is expected to emergence owed to accrued cultivation of large crops specified arsenic paddy, maize and cotton.
