India, Oct. 15 -- From the Red Fort on 15 August, the Prime Minister drew attention to the strategic importance of ensuring affordable access to fertilisers amid rising global costs and growing geopolitical uncertainties-a reality well understood by those working across the fertiliser industry. He noted that the Government has absorbed massive costs to provide internationally priced urea costing around '3,000 for less than '300, and DAP costing over '5,000 for just '1,350. He further added that essential resources are increasingly being weaponised in the world today.

That difference of nearly Rs 2,700 on a single bag of urea is, in the first instance, a measure of protection. It is the reason a farmer in Bundelkhand or Bolangir can plan ...