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The Fertilizer Association of India (FAI) connected Monday (March 10, 2026) said that the urea and phosphatic fertilizer supplies “remain adequate” for the upcoming Kharif season.
“While planetary developments, including geopolitical tensions successful West Asia, person raised concerns astir imaginable disruptions to fertilizer commercialized and logistics, existent inventory levels and proviso arrangements are expected to supply capable cushion to conscionable cultivation demand,” the FAI spokesperson said successful a statement.
The FAI said they are moving intimately with the Central Government, State Governments and different stakeholders to “ensure creaseless organisation of fertilizers crossed regions”. “Production planning, imports and logistics are being actively coordinated to support capable availability during the upcoming cropping season,” it said.
Kharif play successful India is expected to statesman successful June, and India is presently entering the cultivation thin season. “During this phase, fertilizer depletion typically remains moderate, allowing the manufacture to replenish inventories and undertake regular attraction operations astatine accumulation facilities,” the connection said.
In the archetypal 10 months of the year, India has reported higher fertilizer accumulation and imports of Urea, DAP, Complex, SSP and MOP — moving from 57 cardinal tons past twelvemonth to 65 cardinal tons successful FY25-26, the spokesperson added.
“With accordant accumulation of Urea, DAP and NPKs and timely imports, India presently holds capable inventory of cardinal nutrients to guarantee that farm-level request tin beryllium met without disruption. DAP & NPK inventories person gone up by 70-80% implicit past twelvemonth corresponding period, giving capable comfortableness to negociate the impermanent disruption successful immoderate supplies from Middle East,” it said.
The fertilizer assemblage requires imported Regasified Liquefied Natural Gas (RLNG) for the accumulation of urea, with important supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) coming from West Asia. “The existent disruption has impacted state supplies, and the manufacture is moving intimately with the Government for prioritising state allocation for Urea production. With immoderate plants nether yearly maintenance, manufacture is optimizing state allocation to guarantee capable proviso of Urea for the ensuing season,” the connection read.
“In lawsuit of phosphatics fertilizers, India has diversified supplies and semipermanent arrangements, and is sourcing from nations specified arsenic Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Belarus, which partially offsets proviso disruption risks from 1 region.
“Indian fertilizer companies viz IPL, Coromandel, PPL person agelong word proviso arrangements with planetary producers. These companies often unafraid yearly oregon multi-year contracts for phosphoric acid, ammonia, and stone phosphate, which tin assistance stabilise supplies successful the abbreviated term. However, the existent geopolitical disturbances tin interaction prices of these cardinal earthy materials similar Sulphur and Ammonia and manufacture volition beryllium moving intimately with the Government for ensuring that Nutrient based Subsidy rates for the kharif play adequately factors spurt successful earthy worldly prices and speech rate,” the spokesperson said successful the statement.
