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Demand for chemicals, petrochemicals to grow 9% a year: Fertiliser minister

Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda said the size of the industry is likely to grow to $300 billion by 2025

Strong Rabi season offtake helps fertilizer stocks extend gains

Shares buck the market trend, advance between 3 to 8 per cent on Thursday

Indo-Gangetic plain global hotspot of atmospheric ammonia: IIT KGP study

This is due to intense agricultural activities and fertilizer production there, according to researchers at The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

Deepak Fertilisers, GSFC, GNFC: What charts indicate for fertiliser stocks

Chambal Fertilisers may rally towards Rs 240 if it sustains above Rs 200 levels.

FM Sitharaman announces Rs 65,000-crore fertiliser subsidy for farmers

An additional outlay of Rs 10,000 crore will be provided for PM Garib Kalyan Rozgar Yojana

Falling gas prices offer a breather to a subsidy-ridden fertiliser sector

Estimates say a 25.1% fall in natural gas prices, which makes up 50-80% of raw material cost in urea, could lead to a 12% in manufacturing cost; 28 of 31 urea plants in India are gas-based

Chemicals minister launches home delivery of fertilisers for Andhra farmers

Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday launched the home delivery facility of fertilisers for farmers in Andhra Pradesh. Gowda launched POS 3.1 software, SMS Gateway and home delivery facility of fertilisers for farmers in Andhra Pradesh, an official statement said. The minister said the DBT (direct benefits transfer) system was launched on March 1, 2018, on a pan-India basis that has been working well. He said the fertiliser department has successfully implemented a complex system of end-to-end computerisation of movement of fertiliser in the entire country. The system enables to monitor availability of fertiliser on a real-time basis at state, district and at the retail outlet. The entire fertiliser subsidy for the last two years have been disbursed through this system, the statement said. Gowda complemented Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jaganmohan Reddy for the excellent work done by his government in home delivery of fertiliser. In fact, Andhra

Deepak Fertilisers, GSFC: Will Farm Bills passage boost fertiliser stocks?

Here's how fertiliser sector stocks look on the charts and what should be your trading strategy

GAIL: Demand, fertiliser plants, city-gas distribution to drive earnings

Rising gas demand, new fertiliser plants to drive earnings

Covid-19 crisis: Indian economy's road to recovery still has long way to go

Agriculture was expected to be the only silver lining in the economy in the current financial year

Gujarat State Fertilizer's Q4 profit after tax declines 37% to Rs 62 cr

The company's PAT for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal stood at Rs 97.91 crore, it said in a BSE filing.

Govt may rationalise urea price, disincentivise chemical fertilisers

The proposed move seeks to promote balance between chemical and organic fertilisers

Revamp of subsidy regime likely to be in focus in FM Sitharaman's Budget

As of now, the proposal on the table is to consider direct benefit transfer to farmers for food and fertilizer subsidies, sources said

Working capital borrowings of fertiliser sector set to rise, says Icra

Of the total budgetary allocation, the government had released nearly 84 per cent by the end of October 2019, it said

Reduce cost, restore profitability

It is imperative to reorient fertiliser policies to facilitate development of innovative and situation-specific products

Reduction in use of chemical fertiliser needs a roadmap, say experts

The government should first decontrol fertiliser prices to let farmers pick and choose, analysts say

GSFC probe finds fertilizer bags underweight; sales suspended for a week

Sujit Gulati estimated farmer buying the underweight 50 kg fertilizer bags lighter by 400 gram to 500 gram potentially lose Rs 14 per bag, taking the total loss to farmers at roughly Rs 16 lakhs