India, April 2 -- The ongoing war in West Asia has a direct bearing on food security across the world. Fertilisers, which are indispensable for modern agriculture, are critically linked to the petroleum economy. For India, the most populous country in the world, the headache is bigger. It is next to impossible to source food via imports for a country as large as India. How large are India's fertiliser vulnerabilities? Here is what the data shows.

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