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Topic: Urea

Additional fertilizer subsidy of Rs 1.10 lakh crore

Union Finance Minister recently announced that the government will provide an additional fertilizer subsidy of Rs 1.10 lakh crore to protect farmers from the rise in fertilizer prices....

May 25, 2022

Hydrogen production by Urea electrolysis

An electro-catalyst system for hydrogen production by urea electrolysis was developed by Indian Scientists. Urea electrolysis Scientists from the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), an...

March 10, 2022

IFFCO to launch Nano Urea

Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) will launch Nitrogen fertilizer-based Nano Urea in market in June 2021. Highlights A 500-ml Nano Urea is equivalent to 45kg of normal urea....

May 31, 2021

Cabinet approves Subsidy for Urea produced via Coal Gasification

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently approved subsidy for Urea that are to be produced by TFL. TFL is a state-run fertilizer plant. It is Talcher Fertilizer...

April 21, 2021

CCEA approves removal of ambiguities in Modified NPS-III

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has recently approved the proposal of Department of fertilizers to remove ambiguities in the Modified New Pricing Scheme -III (NPS-III) in determining...

March 15, 2020

Status on Indian Coffee report released

The Status of Indian Coffee report was released in early December highlighting one of the biggest crisis situation faced by the Karnataka coffee belt. The Karnataka Growers’ Federation...

December 7, 2019

Urea: Make or Buy

The policymakers are pondering over a question whether it is worth “making” urea at $ 400 per tonne or more when you can import (“buy”) at under $300?....

August 1, 2019

IIT Bombay and IIT Indore have developed biosensor to detect kidney disorders

The Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay and Indore, have jointly developed a biosensor that makes it possible to detect kidney disorders in less than 8 minutes. The biosensor...

August 28, 2017

New Urea Policy 2015

In May 2015, the Union Cabinet gave its approval to a comprehensive New Urea Policy 2015 for the next four financial years (June 2015 to March 2019). Objectives...

October 10, 2015

Gas Price Pooling Policy 2015

From July 1, 2015; there is a ‘Gas price pooling’ mechanism in place in India. Under this scheme; the price of domestic natural gas is averaged or pooled...

October 10, 2015

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