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Created: 27/01/2015 15:05
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A NEWS REPORT ON UREA.*

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Director/GM office*

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Dear Friends,

Kindly go through this very important story on on going Urea Crisis. The story appeared in India Today. Please circulate the article.

A fertile problem called urea

As urea factories shut, import slows down and distribution goes awry, the Modi government could find itself at the receiving end of farmers' ire.

Gairaha is not a place that usually attracts media attention. But something unusual was under way as the new year entered its second week. On January 8, the village in Bangra in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district saw more than 10,000 farmers protesting at the local intermediate college. Incensed over the shortage of urea fertiliser, and anticipating another bad production year after suffering heavy losses of rabi crops for two consecutive years, they threatened to start a long drawn campaign.

Overuse of urea has also meant an adverse effect on soil. "Our larger concern is to sustain productive capacity and retain land nutrients. Thus, organic and chemical fertilisers should be used in a balanced way," says U.S. Awasthi, CEO and managing director of IFFCO, India's biggest fertiliser manufacturing cooperative society.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/modi-government-farmers-urea-fertiliser-shortage/1/414823.html

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Harshendra Singh Verdhan
Manager-Public Relations & Publicity |
Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)
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