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Hike in fertiliser prices puts farmers in a spot
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Lack of govt. subsidy schemes add to their woes
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Lack of govt. subsidy schemes add to their woes
Farmers across the State who are grappling with the dwindling crop yield and price fall of agriculture produce have called upon Union and State governments to do something immediately to arrest the increasing market prices of fertilisers and chemicals. Leaders of major farmers’ organisations say the increasing farm input cost subsequent to the fertiliser price hike will take the ailing agriculture sector to a serious crisis.
“NPK, one of the essential nutrient mixes and the most sought-after fertiliser product comprising nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, costs ₹35,500 a tonne. It was just ₹24,000 till very recently,” says Johnson Kulathingal, general secretary of Kerala Karshaka Union in the State. He points out that the prices of di-ammonium phosphate and other phosphorus-based fertiliser
Farmers at stake as fertiliser prices go up
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May 06, 2021 14:49 IST
The leaders of Indian Farmers Movement and the Malayora Karshaka Samiti say the price hike of the fertilisers can be controlled only by restricting the supremacy of various private fertiliser giants in the price fixing mechanism.
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A coconut farm on the verge of ruin near Puthiyangadi in Kozhikode district.
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The leaders of Indian Farmers Movement and the Malayora Karshaka Samiti say the price hike of the fertilisers can be controlled only by restricting the supremacy of various private fertiliser giants in the price fixing mechanism.
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Higher MSP may see Kerala growers produce more natural rubber from April
February 22, 2021
Currently, as production costs exceed returns, growers are tapping their trees only once a week
Natural rubber growers in Kerala are expecting to tap more rubber from their trees beginning April 1 when a State government order for ₹170 a kg minimum support price (MSP) comes into effect.
Kerala accounts for 90 per cent of the total rubber production in the country.
Currently, a majority of farmers are keeping off from tapping due to prices hovering around ₹150 a kg, while the cost of production is about ₹175. As production costs exceed returns, growers are tapping their trees only once a week, according to grower community sources.