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Fertiliser sales rise 3% to 58 million tonnes in Apr-Feb of FY24 mainly on higher usage of DAP
In the current fiscal up to Feb, sales of key fertilisers have gone up by 3% while urea consumption remained stagnant
Dr.G.R.Balakrishnan Mar 27 2024 Exim News

Fertiliser sales rise 3% to 58 million tonnes in Apr-Feb of FY24 mainly on higher usage of DAP

Recently while announcing the nutrient-based subsidy for the Kharif 2024 season, the government raised the subsidy for phosphorus, the key nutrient of DAP, to  ₹28.72/kg from ₹20.82/kg, with no raise in  the financial assistance for other nutrients  as they were in Rabi 2023-24 season.

 

According to the latest official data, overall consumption of urea until February 29 in the current fiscal increased by 0.3 per cent to 34.12 mt from 34.12 mt a year ago, whereas sales of all fertilisers put together increased a modest 2.8 per cent to 57.57 mt from 56 mt, mainly due to higher sales of complex and di-ammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilisers.

 

Import of overall fertilisers also dropped 10.2 per cent to 16.05 mt from 17.87 mt year-ago, in which complex import declined 18 per cent at nearly 2 mt from 2.44 mt and DAP by 20.1 per cent to 5.31 mt from 6.65 mt. But, MOP import surged 48.6 per cent to 2.07 mt from 1.39 mt.

Production of all fertilisers was up by 4.5 per cent to 46.56 mt from 44.57 mt, which included urea at 28.91 mt (against 25.98 mt year-ago), DAP 4.07 mt (4.02 mt), Complex 8.86 mt (8.71 mt), SSP 4.13 mt (5.19 mt) and Ammonium Sulphate 0.58 mt (0.67 mt).

The government has raised the Budgetary allocation for all the fertiliser subsidy from of ₹1.75-lakh crore in BE to ₹1.89-lakh crore in RE of FY24.