Hyderabad, May 11 -- State Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao has directed officials to ensure 90 per cent of the urea produced at the Ramagundam Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited is allocated for Telangana farmers.

In a review meeting at the Secretariat in Hyderabad on Monday, May 11, the minister oversaw the supply and availability of urea for the upcoming kharif season and instructed that at least 3 lakh metric tonnes of the fertiliser be maintained as buffer stock by May end.

According to him, Telangana currently has a buffer stock of 1.46 lakh metric tonne of urea and around 10,000 metric tonne of DAP and other complex fertilisers.

"For the upcoming kharif season, the government has requested the Centre to allocate 11.50 l...